The admission in dialysis therapies in inappropriate conditions demand discomfort and suffering to the clients with chronicle renal disease (CRD), besides the cost to the health system and of the nursing work. Aim to encourage the client for the adhesion to the treatment that preserves this pathology, it has as objective: to evaluate the competency and the deficit to the self care of the client with CRD. It was implanted the epidemiologic method trough interviews with 51 clients of the clinics of uremia of the HUPE/UERJ, in 2005. It became evident the deficit of the knowledge about the consequences of the arterial hypertension and diabetes linked to the CRD and the limits in the choice and adhesion of the medical therapies, nutritional and of nursing. It was conclude that the doubts about this disease, permeates the life of the clients and may interfere in the adhesion to the treatment and to compromise the client's quality of life. This found it is a reinforcement to the importance of the self care learning to demonstrate its potential to face the CRD.
Nursing; Chronicle Renal Insufficiency; Self Care
