Chronic illness

The aim of palliative care is to enable the patients’ and their families’ quality of life. This can be achieved through effective delivery of care by providing age-specific palliation to an individual with chronic illness and their families. Palliative care is a specialized treatment that supports the patient and their family’s wellbeing through controlling the end-of-life physical symptoms and recognizing their psychological, spiritual and social needs. Nurses are member of the…

them from suffering and pain in a comparatively approach for reasons of sympathy. The word Euthanasia comes from the Greek word “Euthanatos,” “eu” means good and “thanatos” means death. Euthanasia is a way to remedy the struggle of patient’s chronic illness that they have been enduring all their life. As a medical personnel contending the method of Euthanasia, people who are complaining of unimaginable pain seek for Euthanasia to free themselves from suffering and torment. Euthanasia seems to be…

However, there is the need for greater attention to specific individuals with HIV/AIDS, but who lack the resources and capability to access the government provisions. Individuals suffering from chronic illness are automatically ruled out of job contentions since it is impossible to work (Kuppers, 2012). Consequently, such individuals find themselves between a rock and a hard place especially due to their inability to physically receive specific medical…

When your morning begins with pain and your day ends with pain it is exhausting. Not just physically exhausting, mentally and emotionally, too. Anyone who has lived with chronic pain will know just how frustrating it is. Whether your chronic pain has a diagnosable name or you are still experiencing never ending tests. The truth is that the average person cannot understand what you are going through, because they haven’t lived it. It can be difficult to empathize with someone that is dealing…

insurance coverage, language or geographic location. An underserved community is a community where its members can’t have their basic right to health care fulfilled. As result, those community members suffer from lack of timely treatment, suffer from chronic diseases, and are not equipped to manage their diseases…

disorders and chronic respiratory disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as well as providing employment opportunities. Background to the issue Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, mental disorders and chronic respiratory disease are the leading causes…

Patients with low health literacy and chronic illness have extremely complex management needs. When patients cannot understand their instructions or cannot remember directions provided, management of their chronic disease is more difficult for both the patient and the health care provider (Parnell, 2015). Patients are responsible to do their own self-monitoring for signs and symptoms associated with their medical condition. An example of the self-monitoring would be with a client that has atrial…

Depression, by definition, is a “mental illness that is characterized by a profound and persistent feeling of sadness or despair and/or a loss of interest in things that were once pleasurable” (Langwith, 2009, p. 16). Signs and symptoms vary from person to person, and can be categorized from mild to severe – some of the most common being: “hopelessness, loss of energy, persistent fatigue, persistent feelings of guilt or self-criticism, sense of worthlessness, irritability, inability to…

Furthermore, the purpose of interdisciplinary team conference includes to collectively provide solutions and treatment of patients who might have multiple chronic illness that requires the expertise or skill of more than one professional to successfully treat or help in the recovery or rehabilitation processes as earlier…

The success in attaining self-care requisites is an essential element preventive care and management of chronic care. Patient’s need to be supported by the five methods of help; to teach, guide, support and assist to increasing knowledge of health conditions and promoting self-care behaviors (Petiprin, A., 2012). Orem’s requisites provide the framework for…