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Renal-transplant recipients with chronic kidney disease do not fully recover after transplants. In addition, patients who receive renal transplants must take immunosuppressive drugs and take various self-management measures including prevention of infectious disease, to insure long-term graft survival of the transplanted kidney. An authorization system for recipient transplant coordinators (RTC) was started in 2011 in Japan. Post transplant instruction management systems were initiated in the medical treatment revisions put in place in April of 2012. Therefore, the roles which medical providers, including RTCs and the nurses play is vital. It is necessary that management for specialized outpatient departments in change of the transplants, provide patient education. However, the transplanted kidney function times are limited. Many patients must eventually return to dialysis therapy. Therefore, nursing to treat overall chronic kidney disease plays an important role after renal transplantation. |