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Holistic nursing assessment can be achieved by evaluating patients' diseases in direct relation to their experiences of illness and suffering.
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May guide nurses to integrate illness experiences into assessments; leaves open empirical validation in practice.
Persons experiencing disease and illness experience suffering as well. How nurses assess patients' problems holistically has been debated a lot. This article suggests one possible way of assessing patients' situation as a whole by seeing patients' diseases in relation to suffering.
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Gabrielsen et al. (2014) studied this question. Holistic nursing assessment can be achieved by evaluating patients' diseases in direct relation to their experiences of illness and suffering.
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