WEEK 1 LIVING WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS Flashcards
What is the difference between Disease and Illness?
- Disease: the pathophysiology of a condition
- Illness: the human experience of a disease
What is Acute Disease?
Acute:
* Sudden onset, with symptoms relating to the disease process
* Relatively short time
* Ends with either recovery or death
What is Chronic Disease?
Chronic
* Can occur suddently or develop over a long period of time
* Never completely cured
* Focus on managing illness and disease process, restoring and maintaining funciton
* Long term wellbeing in context of disease process
What are contributing factors for chronic illness?
- SDoH
- Lifestyle or behavioural factors
- Genetics and physiology
What is the impact of chonic illness?
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What is Chronicity?
What is the impact of chronic illness to the person?
Chronic illness perceptions
Chronic illness perceptions and culture
Chronic illness and experience and self
- Can result in 4 difference concepts
1. Loss of self
2. Moral Work
3. Devalued Self
4. Chronic Sorrow
What is Loss of Self?
- Overtime, clients feel their self-image disappers
What is Moral Work?
- Patients feeling the obligatino to manage symptoms alongside their daily life
What is Devalued Self?
- Reassessment and new understanding of self, feeling revalued by the world
What is Chronic Sorrow?
- May be a natrual response to chronic illness
What does chronic disease management consist of?
- Managing or preventing chronic conditions
- Intervention or interventions, potential for multiple treatment modalities
- Systematic and collaborative approach to care
- Involving the person
- Reducing negative impacts
- Monitoring function
What are the outcomes of chronic disease management?
- We need to support clients and understand lived experience of the illness
- Nursing is both an art and a science
- Best client outcome is the healthcare professional supporting and assisting through the illness experience
Compare Acute model vs. Chronic model: Onset
- Acute: Sudden onset, shorter course of illness
- Chronic: Gradual onset, permanent cours of illness
Compare Acute model vs. Chronic model: Cure
- Acute: Cure usual
- Chronic: Cure rare
Compare Acute model vs. Chronic model: Patient involvement
- Acute: Passive patient
- Chronic: Patient active, caregiver active
Compare Acute model vs. Chronic model: Health care team
- Acute: Physician dominant
- Chronic: Team care, patient included
Compare Acute model vs. Chronic model: Care emphasis
- Acute: Secondary care emphasis
- Chronic: Primary care emphasis
Compare Acute model vs. Chronic model: Focus
- Acute: Response focused and symptom driven
- Chronic: Proactive, planned intervention
Compare Acute model vs. Chronic model: Collaboration
- Acute: Hospiral, specialists, general practice setting
- Chronic: Collaboraiton across settings
Compare Acute model vs. Chronic model: Health Model
- Acute: Diagnostic and biomedical focus
- Chronic: Populaiton health and support for self-management
