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NRCM0112 - Handout - Chronic Illness

This document discusses chronic illnesses and conditions. It defines chronic conditions as medical issues that require long-term management, often for 3 months or longer. Managing chronic conditions presents many challenges, including alleviating symptoms, psychologically adjusting, preventing crises, following treatment plans, and maintaining identity and normalcy. The document lists common chronic illnesses like arthritis, asthma, cancer, and diabetes and references a model for understanding the trajectory of chronic conditions.

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NRCM0112 - Handout - Chronic Illness

This document discusses chronic illnesses and conditions. It defines chronic conditions as medical issues that require long-term management, often for 3 months or longer. Managing chronic conditions presents many challenges, including alleviating symptoms, psychologically adjusting, preventing crises, following treatment plans, and maintaining identity and normalcy. The document lists common chronic illnesses like arthritis, asthma, cancer, and diabetes and references a model for understanding the trajectory of chronic conditions.

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BATAAN PENINSULA STATE UNIVERSITY

MAIN CAMPUS
College of Nursing and Midwifery www.bpsu.edu.ph
City of Balanga, 2100 Bataan cnm_mc@bpsu.edu.ph

NRCM 0112
Chronic Illness

 Chronic illness and disability may occur across all ages. Some degree of disability is usually present
in severe or advanced chronic illnesses, limiting the patient’s participation in many activities.
Many chronic conditions require therapeutic regimens to keep them under control. The term
“chronic” describes a long disease course and conditions that may be incurable. This often makes
managing chronic conditions difficult for those who must live with them. (Hinkle & Cheever,
2015).
 Chronically ill people do not meet the standards of health as established by WHO definition.

Chronic Conditions
 Chronic conditions are often defined as medical conditions or health problems with associated symptoms
or disabilities that require long-term management (3 months or longer).The specific condition may be a
result of illness, genetic factors, or injury; it may be a consequence of conditions or unhealthy behaviors
that began during childhood and young adulthood. Management of chronic conditions includes learning to
live with symptoms or disabilities and coming to terms with identity changes resulting from having chronic
conditions.

Challenges of living with chronic conditions:


1. Alleviate and manage symptoms
2. Psychologically adjust to and physically accommodate disabilities
3. Prevent and manage crises and complications
4. Carry out regimens as prescribed
5. Validate individual self-worth and family functioning
6. Manage threats to identity
7. Normalize personal and family life as much as possible
8. Live with altered time, social isolation, and loneliness
9. Establish the networks of support and resources that can enhance quality of life
10. Return to a satisfactory way of life after an acute debilitating episode
11. Die with dignity and comfort

Vision Mission

A leading university in the Philippines recognized for its proactive To develop competitive graduates and empowered community members
contribution to Sustainable Development through equitable and by providing relevant, innovative, and transformative knowledge,
inclusive programs and services by 2030. research, extension and production programs and services through
progressive enhancement of its human resource capabilities and
institutional mechanism.
Some examples of chronic conditions:

Alzheimer disease and dementia


Arthritis
Asthma
Cancer
COPD
Crohn disease
Cystic fibrosis
Diabetes
Epilepsy
Heart disease
HIV/AIDS
Mood disorders (bipolar, cyclothymic, and
depression)
Multiple sclerosis
Parkinson disease
(medlineplus.gov)

(The Corbin and Strauss Chronic Illness Trajectory Model)

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