Question

John, age 19, is a student at the local university. He has recently been diagnosed with chronic renal failure and is scheduled for routine hemodialysis. Provide detailed information for each of the following:

• All possible causes of the chronic renal failure that John has been diagnosed with

• Examine how dialysis may affect John’s studies at the university and his overall biopsychosocial health status

• Differentiate the types of dialysis available. Examine which type(s) of dialysis that John might best tolerate
• Appraise the possible accommodations (ADA) that he can request.
• Interpret the long term and short term complications of dialysis
• Appraise community resources that may be available for John

Answer 1

Answer: The possible causes for the chronic renal failure are:

• Hypertension
• Diabetes
• Extreme consumption of alcohol
• Smoking
• Obesity.

The dialysis will influence the studies as it has to be done every 6 months depending upon the severity. It may create mental stress and poor concentration on the studies.

The types of dialysis are:

• In the case of the hemodialysis, the machine is used for filteration of the waste products as well as the water from the blood.
• In the case of the peritoneal dialysis, the fluid is used that is placed in the patient's lower abdominal cavity. This also used to removes the waste material.

The peritoneal dialysis can be tolerate by the client as it involves less pain as compared to the other. It also a kind of natural method to remove the waste from the kidney.