RESPI RESPIRATORY PULMONARY DISEASE

Respiratory Pulmonary Disease

Respiratory Pulmonary Disease

Introduction

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a important health problem ranked 12th for worldwide problem of infection and projected to be 5th by the year 2020. The aim of this assignment is to discover the nature of COPD, the lived know-how of those with the condition and their exceptional needs. In particular it looks at the measures utilised to help the persevering organise the symptoms of COPD and minimise the impairment affiliated with pulmonary changes to improve a patient's quality of life nursing is the use of clinical judgement and the provision of care to enable people to encourage, improve, maintain, or retrieve wellbeing and when death is inevitable, to pass away peacefully. in this paper we analysed the article “My death nearing its future: a Hendeggarian hermeneutical analysis of lived experiences of persons with chronic illness” written by Gullickson. The scribe will discover the values of chronicity and relate how COPD aligns into these criteria as a chronic illness.

Discussion

In this article Gullickson analysed that COPD is ranked as the fourth leading cause of death (behind heart disease, cancer and cerebrovascular disease) and may be underestimated due to concomitant co morbid conditions (Gullickson, 1999). The economic and social impact of this disease is steadily increasing with costs for the year reaching £500 million. In 2000, the world health organisation (WHO) estimated 2,74 million deaths .The WHO estimates 1,1 billion smokers worldwide increasing to 1,6 billion by 2025 (Gullickson, 1999).

Chronicity comes from the Greek word "chronos" meaning "time." Chronicity is the state of being chronic. Gullickson, (1999) defines chronic as “persisting for a long time (usually of an illness or personal social problem). This definition is quiet limited and does not give attributes of the condition or its effects on the sufferer.

Chronic illness is generally associated with the presence of a protracted disease process, which is not amenable to treatment, is responsible for impairment or disability with a sustained influence on functioning and lifestyle of an individual. Gullickson, defines a chronic illness as ” all impairment or deviations from normal which have one or more of the following characteristics: permanency, leave residual damage, are caused by non-reversible pathology, require specialised training of the patient for rehabilitation and/or require long period of supervision”.

According to Gullickson, (1999) the initial functional ability of the patient provides the MDT with a basis for charting progress or ...