Choose a chronic illness that could affect a patient in your nursing practice. Discuss three (3) ways you could promote the health of the patient and the family dealing with the specific illness.

– I am a labor and delivery nurse, having a chronic illness such as drug addiction, hepatitis, or HIV could affect a patient in my practice. Select one of those diseases and apply it to a laboring mother and how it could affect her care and how I could promote their health and assist her family members who are there at her laboring bedside.

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