CLINICAL NURSING EXPERIENCE IN CHRONIC ILLNESS

Running head: CLINICAL NURSING EXPERIENCE IN CHRONIC ILLNESS
CLINICAL NURSING EXPERIENCE IN CHRONIC ILLNESS
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CLINICAL NURSING EXPERIENCE IN CHRONIC ILLNESS1
Introduction
A chronic illness can inflict lifelong impact on the quality of life and wellbeing of an
individual and thus calls for nursing interventions in the form of continuous patient education,
collaborate care and frequent health assessments (Vallés et al., 2018). The following paper will
hence briefly expound upon a clinical experience, illness trajectory and required nursing
infections with respect to a patient with a chronic illness.
Discussion
Clinical Experience
The clinical experience was associated with attending to a 65 year old woman who was
admitted to the concerned healthcare organization upon complaints of hip pain after encountering
a fall at home. A radiological examination demonstrated the prevalence of a hip fracture. The
patient also presented with a medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, obesity and osteoporosis
since the last 1 year, along with a familial history of stroke. A physical and biochemical
examination reported a Body Mass Index of 31.25 kg/m2 and a fasting blood glucose levels of
140 mg/dl. A 72 hour dietary recall as well as a food frequency questionnaire reported prolonged
consumption of a diet low in dairy and high rich in sugars, saturated fats and sodium.
Illness Trajectory
The patient shared how she begun to experience frequent knee pains since the early
months of 2019. The pain were reported to increase, gradually preventing the client’s ability to
engage in her weekly grocery shopping and social gatherings. After a fall last summer, she was
learned of her osteoporotic and diabetic diagnosis. Indeed, it has been evidenced that the
symptoms of osteoporosis – a chronic illness characterized by increased bone porosity and loss