Together Let's Fight 4 Your Life: A Case Study

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Together Let’s Fight 4 Your Life is a support group for Kidney Dialysis patients. Within the support group the members will love, support and encourage one another to remain positive and keep faith during trying times. This support group is sponsored by Frenisus Kidney Care to educate patients along with support on self-care. Let’s Fight 4 Your Life is an evidence based support that will focus on interventions that is highly recommended for chronic renal failure patients. It will focus on interventions to enhance the patient’s quality of life. At Together Let’s Fight 4 Your Life we must recognize the different health disparities that causes patients to seek treatment, the time frame, the number of times of treatment and process of getting …show more content…
Patients referred directly from Fresenius Kidney Care will give the patients the opportunity to partake in a group that will give everyone a fair opportunity to join without leaving anyone out. Chronic kidney failure is such a devastating news and a very sensitive topic to many individuals that are faced with kidney failure. It is important to understand that patients that volunteer to be a part of the support group are battling numerous of fights to get an in-depth understanding about their terminal illness. Patients that are recruited are on dialysis due to different health disparities such as in heritage disease, diabetes etc. During the recuirtment process, it is best to have clear understanding of the background that caused each patient to need dialysis. Chronic kidney failure is a terminal illness that many individuals have a hard time coping with. The act of acceptance plays a huge role during the individual’s lowest time of accepting their disease. During the recruitment, the patients and I will go over an in-depth overview of the information. However, we are all aware that everyone is excited to hear and

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