Challenges and Strategies for Self-Management of Renal Diseases

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Introduction:
Renal diseases are is one of the most commonly discovered chronic health adversities
which involves a number of concerns that are associated with not just pharmacological care
but also demands considerable self-management activities (Kramer et al. 2018). It causes
gradual loss of function of the kidney of the patient, hence, there is need for acute self-care or
self-management that emerge for such patients due to the lack of the kidneys being able to
complete their daily functionality. This summary essay will attempt to discuss the challenges
identified by three online discussion posts and suggest strategies to overcome the barriers.
Discussion of challenges and strategies to overcome:
With respect to the appendix 1, it discussed the fact that the challenges in the self-
management priorities and along with that, the self-management education plans given to the
patients with kidney damage has considerable barriers. The extremely short duration of the
self-management education and training is the main contributing factor for the challenges in
patients or their family carers not clearly understanding the need for lifestyle modifications,
dietary habits and fitness regime. The discussion post provided the strategy of offering
steering promotion platforms to the suitable target group, although there are other possible
strategies as well (Reid et al. 2011). Enhancing the duration of the clinical interaction
between the patients and their care providers during patient educational session or discharge
planning with smartphone based teaching can be effective (Hayashi et al. 2017). Another
strategy, as discussed by Dinh et al. (2016), is the teach back method, which will encompass
asking the patients or their family members to repeat back the content of the education plan
which will ensure clear demarcation of whether the patients have understood it completely.
As per the appendix 2, the lack of health literacy among the populace, especially those
belonging to the lower socio-economic gradient, has limited access to health care and health

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promotion, and I completely agree with the school of thought. In order for the self-
management planning and training to work effectively for the patients in consideration, it is
very important for the target group to at least have a basic idea of preventative or health
promotional behaviours (Joboshi and Oka 2017). Along with that, the discussion post of
appendix 2 has also mentioned that the hyperkalaemia is a health concern which is not given
enough prioritization in the health promotional planning. Both of these factors act
cumulatively against proper self-management activities being integrated in the patents with
hyperkalaemia or kidney disorders (Fried, Kovesdy and Palmer 2017). First and foremost
strategy is adequate training of the health care staff on the importance of hyperkalaemia to
improve health literacy of the populace. It is crucial for the local and global health authorities
to focus on enhancing the accessibility of health care as well to ensure better accessibility,
better literacy and better self-management of the diseases (Kazawa et al. 2015).
With respect to the discussion post appendix 3, the small set patient centred
conferences based on self-care activities around the home care based self-management can be
difficult. The collective decision making, the effective and impartial participation from both
the patient nd the collaborating care providers is important which is often not taken into
consideration which impacts their self-management abilities as well. In this case, a very
important strategy that can be incorporated in this context is incorporating different
motivational interviewing and collective decision making that encourage self-care modalities
(Crown and Vogel 2017).
As discussed in the appendix 4, Cinacalcet being withdrawn from the pharmaceutical
benefit scheme has enhanced the cost of care for the patients immensely. Which has led to
reluctance to continuing the medication or taking the alternative surgical option which is
associated with greater risks. There is need for local and national government action on
making the medicine subsidized on the basis of demand supply statistics, although the there