Review : Helping children cope: chronic renal failure

Abstract

■ Chronic renal failure places many restrictions on children.

■ Children's nurses need to assist the child with chronic renal failure in achieving as normal a life as possible.

■ Purssell's model of normalisation provides a useful framework to identify strategies to help children cope.

■ The need for further research in this area is established.

Keywords

Children Children's Nursing Chronic Renal Failure Coping Family-centered care Normality.

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