Treating end stage renal disease with a kidney transplant is the best treatment. It reduces the rate of illness and death, resulting in a longer life. can work and have a good quality of life. The number of patients waiting for a kidney transplant is as many as 40,000, but only 400 receive surgery per year. Therefore, patients have to wait 3.1-4 years for a kidney transplant. Waiting is something that patients cannot avoid. The longer the waiting period, the more anxiety, stress, and fear the patient will have, resulting in the patient becoming depressed. In which patients waiting for a kidney transplant experience living with dialysis, there are 3 effects: 1) physical health and normal activities of living. 2) psychological wellbeing. 3) personal relationship. Therefore, nurses who care for patients undergoing dialysis or following up with doctors at kidney transplant clinics play an important role in providing good psychosocial care to patients awaiting kidney transplantation.