Running head: HUMAN EXPERIENCE ACROSS THE HEALTH-ILLNESS CONTINUUM 1
Research the health-illness continuum and its relevance to patient care. In a 750-1,000
word paper, discuss the relevance of the continuum to patient care and present a
perspective of your current state of health in relation to the wellness spectrum. Include the
following:
1. Examine the health-illness continuum and discuss why this perspective is important to
consider in relation to health and the human experience when caring for patients.
2. Explain how understanding the health-illness continuum enables you, as a health care
provider, to better promote the value and dignity of individuals or groups and to serve
others in ways that promote human flourishing.
3. Reflect on your overall state of health. Discuss what behaviors support or detract from
your health and well-being. Explain where you currently fall on the health-illness
continuum.
4. Discuss the options and resources available to you to help you move toward wellness
on the health-illness spectrum. Describe how these would assist in moving you toward
wellness (managing a chronic disease, recovering from an illness, self-actualization,
etc.).
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located
in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to
become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
Benchmark Information
This benchmark assesses the following competency:
RN-BSN
5.1. Understand the human experience across the health-illness continuum.
Human Experience Across the Health-illness Continuum
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
, HUMAN EXPERIENCE ACROSS THE HEALTH-ILLNESS CONTINUUM 2
1. Examine the health-illness continuum and discuss why this perspective is important to
consider in relation to health and the human experience when caring for patients.
Research shows that the health-illness continuum to be a graphical demonstration of a
good health idea. It suggests that wellbeing involve both emotional and mental health and also
the being sick or not. Health-illness continuum assists in curing patients by making them believe
that they will be okay by helping individual to acquire emotionally and mentally development.
According to Eisenhauer, C., & Hunter, J. (2012) by using this, patients are inspired to attain
good health and avoid both emotional and physical illnesses by taking note of which scale the
patient falls within continuum by taking measurements. This also approximates if there is any
development by the patients. In certain times patients may not indicate physical signs and
symptoms of the illness but at the same time feel anxious, depressed and not happy and at many
times insist that they are not feeling well this can affect their wellbeing.
2. Explain how understanding the health-illness continuum enables you, as a health
care provider, to better promote the value and dignity of individuals or groups and to serve
others in ways that promote human flourishing
Human flourishing uses logical principle in careful nursing requirements and inclusive
growth and effects for nursing activities that need further explanation for nurses and the people
they take care of. This involves the assessment of human flourishing as a life-long method of
endeavoring, by the use of will and reason to decide on thinking and acting perfectly on the
matter. When we use careful nursing exercisehealth is reflected on two ways. The first way is
Research the health-illness continuum and its relevance to patient care. In a 750-1,000
word paper, discuss the relevance of the continuum to patient care and present a
perspective of your current state of health in relation to the wellness spectrum. Include the
following:
1. Examine the health-illness continuum and discuss why this perspective is important to
consider in relation to health and the human experience when caring for patients.
2. Explain how understanding the health-illness continuum enables you, as a health care
provider, to better promote the value and dignity of individuals or groups and to serve
others in ways that promote human flourishing.
3. Reflect on your overall state of health. Discuss what behaviors support or detract from
your health and well-being. Explain where you currently fall on the health-illness
continuum.
4. Discuss the options and resources available to you to help you move toward wellness
on the health-illness spectrum. Describe how these would assist in moving you toward
wellness (managing a chronic disease, recovering from an illness, self-actualization,
etc.).
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located
in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to
become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
Benchmark Information
This benchmark assesses the following competency:
RN-BSN
5.1. Understand the human experience across the health-illness continuum.
Human Experience Across the Health-illness Continuum
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
, HUMAN EXPERIENCE ACROSS THE HEALTH-ILLNESS CONTINUUM 2
1. Examine the health-illness continuum and discuss why this perspective is important to
consider in relation to health and the human experience when caring for patients.
Research shows that the health-illness continuum to be a graphical demonstration of a
good health idea. It suggests that wellbeing involve both emotional and mental health and also
the being sick or not. Health-illness continuum assists in curing patients by making them believe
that they will be okay by helping individual to acquire emotionally and mentally development.
According to Eisenhauer, C., & Hunter, J. (2012) by using this, patients are inspired to attain
good health and avoid both emotional and physical illnesses by taking note of which scale the
patient falls within continuum by taking measurements. This also approximates if there is any
development by the patients. In certain times patients may not indicate physical signs and
symptoms of the illness but at the same time feel anxious, depressed and not happy and at many
times insist that they are not feeling well this can affect their wellbeing.
2. Explain how understanding the health-illness continuum enables you, as a health
care provider, to better promote the value and dignity of individuals or groups and to serve
others in ways that promote human flourishing
Human flourishing uses logical principle in careful nursing requirements and inclusive
growth and effects for nursing activities that need further explanation for nurses and the people
they take care of. This involves the assessment of human flourishing as a life-long method of
endeavoring, by the use of will and reason to decide on thinking and acting perfectly on the
matter. When we use careful nursing exercisehealth is reflected on two ways. The first way is
