NSG 4055 Illness and Disease Management Across the Life Span Discussion- South University, Savannah.
There are many factors that affect chronic illness-chronic pain, stigma, social isolation, altered mobility, or fatigue. Utilizing your learning from your readings and the South University Online Library resources, respond to one the following questions:
• Based on the research, which of these factors have the greatest impact on a patient? Why? Contrast at least two ways the factors would affect a twelve-year-old with the way they would affect a seventy-five-year-old.
• Consider the twelve-year-old and the seventy-five-year-old have a chronic illness. How does the chronically ill patient's illness trajectory influence the plan of care?
• Review Healthypeople.gov website. Discuss how you feel these goals will impact the health of the nation. Briefly discuss how you could incorporate these goals/objectives into your day-to-day nursing practice.
The response should include a reference list. Double-space, using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.