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Research the health-illness continuum and its relevance to patient care. In a 750-1,000 word paper, discuss the relevance of the continuum to patient care and present a perspective of your current state of health in relation to the wellness spectrum. Include the following:
- Examine the health-illness continuum and discuss why this perspective is important to consider in relation to health and the human experience when caring for patients.
- Reflect on your overall state of health. Discuss what behaviors support or detract from your health and well-being. Explain where you currently fall on the health-illness continuum.
- Discuss the options and resources available to you to help you move toward wellness on the health-illness spectrum. Describe how these would assist in moving you toward wellness (managing a chronic disease, recovering from an illness, self-actualization, etc.).
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Outline
Title: Health-Illness Continuum
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Outline
Title: Health-Illness Continuum
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Introduction
Body
Conclusion
Reference
Running head: HEALTH-ILLNESS CONTINUUM
Health-Illness Continuum
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HEALTH-ILLNESS CONTINUUM
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It is paramount that patients in hospitals need guidance and care from the nurses for them
to recover as quickly as possible. Nurses are very considered crucial and vital when the health of
patients is concerned. To this extent, therefore, the nurses adopt the use of Health-illness
continuum that enables them to serve and direct the patients in the right channel towards
recovery. This paper seeks to explore Health-illness Continuum and its importance as far as the
patient care is concerned, discuss the behaviors that support or detract from my health and wellbeing and finally explore the options and the available resources that can aid me to move toward
wellness on the health-illness spectrum.
Health-illness Continuum, also referred to as Illness-wellness Continuum can simply be
denoted as a typical illustration mainly used by nurses when handling the patients that brings a
connection between the treatment pattern and the wellness pattern for a patient. The main
obligation and duty of a professional nurse are to help the patients str...