NRS10733 - Narratives of Health and Illness
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Running head: HEALTH AND ILLNESS NARRATIVESHEALTH AND ILLNESS NARRATIVESName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
1HEALTH AND ILLNESS NARRATIVESDuring the course of treatment, nursing professionals often feel the need to know theirclients at depth and also to comprehend their historical, familial and social contexts so that theycan provide a prepare plan for holistic care. It is often important for nurses to listen to illnessnarratives as that gives them the scope to know the stories as well as the narratives they tell(McAllister et al., 2015). These also provide them with contextual detail and also person-revealing characteristics which make them understand the individuals in a better way. Over theyear, the form of illness narratives have become the culturally congruent ways of ascertaining aswell as understanding the different experiences which the patients have gone through (Laird etal., 2015). Over the years, researchers have found that this process helps the patients to expressthem in a more complete pattern in comparison to that of the yes/no algorithmic process inconversing with the clients. These methods help the patients to elicit the stories which in turnhelp to provide proper illustrations of the different types of social contexts of different eventsthat the patients have gone through. This in turn helps to implicitly provide the answers toquestions of several feelings as well as meanings (Baker, 2015). In the present day, it has been already seen that the model of bio-psycho-social model ofassessment has been preferred by healthcare organizations that the biomedical model of care.According to WHO, a disease should never be taken as a condition where the human being iseither having microbial infections or are suffering from physiological failures. A nurse whoprovided care to with this model of assessment can make the patient recover from the disorderbut will never be able to give him a quality life unless the nurse assess the psychological as wellas the social context of the patient. The present researchers are of the opinion thatbiopsychosocial model of care helps in developing a detailed assessment of the patient andthereby help in developing a treatment plan which involves not only interventions for physical
2HEALTH AND ILLNESS NARRATIVESdevelopment but also for modification of social and psychological; aspects. As a result thepatient can lead a quality life (Westin, Sundler & Berglund, 2015). In order to develop such anunderstanding, the narratives are of extremely important which helps the nurse to understand thepsychosocial as well as the social backgrounds of the patients. Often the stories reflect that allthe aspects are interlinked and therefore they result in combined effect on the patient’s ailment.Moreover the narratives of the patients often help to include details which might seem minute tothem but in the long run help the nurses to find cues about the symptoms and hence makes thedevelopment of intervention plan easier (Rejno, Berg & Danielson, 2014).A large number of factors can affect the patient narratives and the nurses should criticallyanalyze each and every statement mentioned in the narrative to develop an overall scenario.Often a number of sociological factors are suggested by the researchers to impact on the patient’snarratives. Often while discussing the narratives, different issues are depicted by the patients ofwhom the cues that give information about the social structures of the patient’s lives play bigimportance (Buckley, McCormanck & Ryan, 2014). Often patients are seen to grow and developthemselves according to certain guidelines fixed by the society and whenever they are not beingable to follow those rules an customs, they are disregarded by the society and are often excluded.A small example can be noted in this scenario. A patient who has developed depression wouldcome to the clinic and discuss different interventions that would help him to get over depression.In such kind of narratives, social influences are often heard by the nurses where the patientssuggests that how he has been stigmatize by the society who have excluded him from the socialgatherings (Condelius & Anderson, 2015). Such a society greatly criticizes the patient when hetries to visit a healthcare professional to get over his symptoms. In fear of being stigmatized,such a patient avoids visiting professionals or they explain their narratives in ways which does
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