NURSING MANAGEMENT FOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PATIENTS; REVIEW

The aim of this paper which was conducted through digital databases; PubMed and Embase for all studies that were published concerning our topics up to the end of 2021, was to identify the roles of nurses in management of patient post-kidney transplant. Kidney transplant is a surgical procedure that involves the transfer of a healthy kidney into the body of a patient with end-stage renal disease in order to compensate for the loss of a kidney or to replace a diseased organ with a functional one. As a result, kidney allograft recipients require nursing care, with special attention paid to the effects of the surgical procedure and those associated with the use of immunosuppressive agents. Nurses tasked with these patients' care should be knowledgeable enough to enable the development of correct nursing diagnoses (NDs) and, as a result, suitable care plans.