Nursing: Chronic Conditions - chronic conditions related to health priorities in Australia
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Currently, chronic illnesses are the main cause of disability and preventable death
globally and the costs and prevalence linked with chronic conditions are increasing. As the
pervasiveness of chronic illnesses continues to increase, more prominence is being placed on the
development of strategies for primary care that improve the delivery of healthcare. As such,
registered nurses (RNs) play a critical role in the management of chronic illnesses and are well-
placed to improve the delivery and planning of healthcare resources in primary care. According
to Griffin (2017), the management of chronic disease comprises tasks such as obtaining the
smoking history, vital signs, encouraging exercise and wound care. Others include lifestyle
counselling and education on habits that are healthy. This paper, therefore, discusses a nurse’s
role in providing holistic care for Matthew Thornton who is living with type 2 diabetes,
hypertension and obesity. It also includes a discussion of models of care to support Matthew as
well as the national strategic framework for the patient.
Providing Holistic Care for Matthew
Addressing chronic illnesses is a significant challenge for the majority of healthcare
systems globally (Reynolds et al., 2018). According to the authors, a feature of chronic illnesses
is that they typically require long periods of observation, care, or supervision. In the case study,
Matthew Thornton, a thirty-three year-old Aboriginal man, has a history of hypertension, type 2
diabetes, and obesity. Obesity, particularly, has been evidenced to be an autonomous risk factor
for coronary heart disease. Furthermore, the resistance of insulin that is linked to obesity takes
part in the development of other cardiac risk factors such as type 2 diabetes and hyptertension. In
this case, therefore, the main chronic illness of focus is diabetes whose management will enable
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