Crohn's Patient Education Plan Essay

Crohn’s: Patient Education Plan

NUR427

Michelle Howell, RN

March 9, 2011

Crohn’s: Patient Education Plan 2 Crohn’s disease is a chronic illness that requires permanent lifestyle changes to diminish symptoms and restore optimal health. It is important to address psychosocial issues that represent important hurdles for clients with Crohn’s disease as well as the physical implications for nursing care. Chron’s disease may begin at a young age and the recurrent nature of the disease can negatively affect productivity throughout the client’s life creating important quality of life issues (Cohen, 2002). Current research relates the lifestyle…show more content…
The child’s lack of adequate socialization with peers may contribute to identity confusion. The adolescent being to notice that they are not like their friends. and this alone can cause a great deal of distress. Teenagers want to fit into a group and Crohn’s disease constantly pulls them away from their peers and deprives them of a sense of belonging. Teens may be self-conscious of their delayed puberty a complication of
Crohn’s disease. Additionally, a colostomy if required alters the teen’s identity because their appearance and body image becomes different from that of their peers. The overwhelming sensation of embarrassment that colostomy brings may be more difficult to deal with that the pain of the disease itself. Adolescents are conscious that they cannot just go swimming or participate in something as innocent as a sport where one team is skins and one is shirts, for the fear they will be on the skins team Crohn’s: Patient Education Plan 4
(Mackner, Sisson, & Crandell, 2005). The humiliation can be overwhelming…show more content…
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