The patients that receive peritoneal dialysis, should change their lifestyle to survive, learning and carrying out activities to take care of if same, with the modifications that it imposes him the illness; everything will allow him to it to feel well, to stay independently in their social, labor and family environment. The success of this therapy will depend on the self care capacity that they have to develop activities of the daily life and the goods that it imposes him the illness; being it an area that requires of valuation and orientation of the self care. It is so the present investigation had for objective to determine the self care capacity in the patients that receive peritoneal dialysis, taking like mark reference to the general Theory of autocuidado of Dorothea Orem. The study is descriptive of cross section, carried out in 32 patients that receive peritoneal dialysis in the E...