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Routine nursing provides "assistance with medical care," based on nursing science, i.e., holistic assessment and understanding of a person as a living entity, while observing reactions to health-related problems and supporting the lives of patients. While caring for patients with chronic diseases, it is essential that nurses understand a patient's experience of illness and act from the perspective of supporting the patient's lifestyle by familiarizing themselves with this experience. For example, to support self-management in a patient undergoing hemodialysis, nurses familiarize themselves with the patient's illness, with the consistent perspective of holistic assessment. Furthermore, nurses identify practices that combine care with cure by linking treatment to the patient's lifestyle, while simultaneously gaining an understanding of the patient's physical state based on medical knowledge. Hence, nursing practice should integrate care and cure to allow nurses to approach a patient's health-related problems with a perspective different from that for a cure. |