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Provide Health Promotion teaching with references for Sickle Cell Disease.
Sickle cell diseases (SCD) is a chronic inherited disease belonging to a group of conditions called hemoglobinopathies. Individuals with SCD often require close medical care from specialists. Nonetheless, nurse practitioners are in ideal positions to facilitate the health promotion and health maintenance necessary to decrease the high rate of morbidity and mortality associated with this disease.
Nurse practitioners must understand the importance of early identification of affected individuals, effective monitoring and screening, effective monitoring and screening, effective pain treatment, and prophylaxis. The unpredictable trajectory of SCD can lead to frustration, fear, helplessness, hopelessness, and emotional distress. Ineffective pain management is a major problem for people with Sickle cell diseases (SCD). Nurse practitioners can overcome this problem by initiating effective and prompt pain management in a nonjudgmental manner.
Almost all people with this disease will have painful crises. Risk increases if you don’t drink enough fluids (dehydration), get an infection, are pregnant, have surgery, or are at high altitude.
Because sickle cell anemia and crises affect the whole body, there are many complications of this disease:
How long it takes to get better depends on your treatment, how well you recover, your overall health, and any complications you may have.
Sickle cell anemia is a lifelong disease. It is important to have one primary care provider who knows you and manages your condition and who you see regularly. Your provider can:
Pain control is a primary focus of managing sickle cell disease. Your pain may be sudden and severe or chronic and hard to manage or a combination of the two. Talk with your provider about how to best manage your pain. Follow your provider’s instructions and let him or her know when treatment is not helping.
Management
Diet, Exercise, and Other Lifestyle Changes