Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Implementation of fluid and food management of end stage renal disease (esrd) patients involve in restricting fluid intake and consuming low protein, sufficient calorie and low salt food. esrd patient noncompliance due to a chronic disease suffered by the patient's chronic, leading to saturation of the patients to regulate fluid intake and daily food. the purpose of this research was to know the description of the implementation of fluid and food management of esrd patients in dialysis unit of dr. zainoel abidin hospital banda acch 2012. the design uses in this research was descriptive exsplorative by crossectional study approach. the sampling technique used was total sampling for all patients in dialysis unit. quetionnaire in the form of checklist and dichotomus consisting of 9 statment items was uses as data collection technique. data were analyzed descriptively by determining percentage of good and poor. from the result of research, its show that implementations of fluid and food management was in poor category, 53 persons (58,88%), the fluid management was in good category, 79 persons (87,88%), food management was poor category, 49 persons (52,22%). based on this research, it was suggested that the esrd patients improve the implementation of food management and nurses in dialysis unit improve the counseling about the food management for esrd patients.