Chronic Illness in Nursing

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Choose a chronic illness that could affect a patient in your nursing practice. Discuss three (3) ways you could promote the health of the patient and the family dealing with the specific illness.

- I am a labor and delivery nurse, having a chronic illness such as drug addiction, hepatitis, or HIV could affect a patient in my practice. Select one of those diseases and apply it to a laboring mother and how it could affect her care and how I could promote their health and assist her family members who are there at her laboring bedside.

-600 words, APA format, 4 references

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Running head: CHRONIC DISEASES IN THE NURSING PROFESSION

Chronic Diseases in the Nursing Profession
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CHRONIC DISEASES IN THE NURSING PROFESSION

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Currently, HIV is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases and it is slowly
becoming a major health issue globally. In my nursing career, I often come across with a number
laboring mothers who are suffering from HIV. However, HIV not only threatens the health of
the laboring mothers seeking services but also it endangers the health of the unborn. This disease
can be transmitted to babies from their mothers during birth, through breastfeeding or other body
fluids such as saliva from the mother (David, 2018). In adults, it can be transmitted through
sharing personal objects, unprotected sex with infected persons, using unsterilized needles and
also through kissing.
Effects of HIV on the Care of Laboring Mothers
Infection of a laboring mother with HIV would thus pose serious threats to both the
mother and the unborn since HIV kills white blood cells leaving the body vulnerable to
infections by other diseases. This would thus expose her to ...


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