Nurses Role in Prevention of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

Now a days, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is one of the major public health problem in developing countries. Nurses play an important role in prevention of chronic kidney disease. With advancement of medical sciences & nursing, the concept of prevention has become much broader. It has four levels viz. primordial prevention, primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. Primordial prevention means prevention of development of risk factors when they have not yet appeared and it can be achieved through providing adequate M.C.H care in the hospital as well as in the community. Primary prevention can be done through controlling environmental factors and eliminating predisposing factors of chronic kidney disease. Nurses can help in secondary prevention through early detecting CKD by screening high-risk groups and referring CKD clients to nephrologists. Nurses should have thorough knowledge about treatment of CKD and she should be very much careful about aggressive and adequate treatment of CKD. Tertiary prevention includes disability limitation and rehabilitation which can be achieved by initiating adequate renal replacement therapy in time and appropriate counseling.