Helping the client with chronic disability achieve high-level wellness.
Clients with chronic disability often define themselves in terms of their sick role. Today, many healthcare professionals and laypersons alike prefer to view the individual as a unified whole striving toward high-level wellness. Thus, a client may be diagnosed with a physical illness, a chronic illness, or a disability but may still work to attain high-level wellness by functioning in an integrated way with the environment. This article describes the client with chronic disability in relation to high-level wellness and provides techniques nurses can use to facilitate a client's positive adjustment.
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Bethel College, Mishawaka, IN, USA.
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D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000451:nursing*; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006293:Health Promotion; D018939:Holistic Nursing; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D019145:Rehabilitation Nursing