When diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, the patient is 16 to 40 percent more likely to expire than reach end stage renal disease, or stage 5 chronic kidney disease (Center for Disease Control and Prevention. National Chronic Kidney Disease Fact Sheet, 2014, 2015). When the patient does reach end stage renal disease, or the point of chronic kidney disease where their kidneys can no longer filter our fluid and other electrolytes, they have two …show more content…
The score lowest in managing their symptoms, the load of the disease, social support, positive viewpoint, and decision making (Wright & Wilson, 2015). Some of this could be that they only need one caregiver to be able to perform this life saving action at least three times a week. Other things that could play into the lower scores could be the circumstance that they only have to see their support staff once a month, and are not in contact with staff up to three times a week. Kim Koch (personal communication, February 8, 2016) endorse this