Difference between illness and disease........
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In a previous article I wrote here on Associated Content, I advised first semester nursing students to think like a nurse and not a doctor. This mentality will help student nurses understand the difference
between illness and disease. As a nurse, you will need to diagnose the human response to your patient's medical problem. That is why there are specific nursing diagnoses you will learn and familiarize yourself with. A physician can diagnose a patient as being diabetic (disease.) But if that diabetic patient does not monitor his glucose levels or make necessary changes in his diet, the nurse can diagnose him with risk for unstable glucose levels (illness.) Thus, nursing is concerned with illness while medicine (or a physician) is concerned with disease.