YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Nursing Perspective on Patient Mental Illness
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This paper discusses a nurse's quality improvement goal in a mental health unit. The paper identifies members of the team, how to ...
As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...
for APNs. One such path is to be a nurse anesthetist, who is a licensed APN who is considered to be using personal professional ju...
to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...
range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...
36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...
can speculate that the attitudes of peers complicates or causes depression in adolescents who suffer from mental illness, or it ma...
evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...
on nursing care, particularly when considering the psychological factors of this model (Saliba, 2006). Breathing is one of the b...
the women who have traditionally filled nursing positions will undoubtedly continue to pursue other professional opportunities tha...
that depression is experienced, as well as the inability for young adults to understand why they are depressed at such a vulnerabl...
they do and so are less valuable in health care (Cys, 2004). NPs are and have been nurses first, and a requirement for the Master...
Treatment included drilling holes in peoples heads to release the evil spirits (Stoker, 2010). Other treatments included exorcism,...
inmates is due to the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric services, which began in the 1960s, as this trend resulted in the rele...
the inherent differences between models. Ultimately, an individual chooses a nursing model that is based upon and compatible with...
patient was in a significant amount of pain, he made jokes throughout his entire stay, as family members remained at his bedside. ...
have a drastically smaller volume of a section of the left PFC that sits behind the bridge of the nose. In some cases this sectio...
Adams maintained that her experiences with nursing care and the structure of nursing services has changed in the past decade, and ...
Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...
all aspects of professional nursing and a nurses obligation to patients to provide ethical and professional quality care. The firs...
In six pages this nurse's job loss is examined in terms of the reasons behind it after her failure to save a terminally ill patien...
In five pages this paper considers the reflective thinking concept from a nursing perspective with the emphasis on Bert Teekman's ...
In five pages this paper discusses the plight of the homeless and health care access in a consideration of a nurse's role. Six so...
In six pages Erik Erikson's identity development stages are examined and then applied to a case study that involves a young cancer...
Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...
and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...
of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...
Partially as a result of improved heath care practices which result in longer life and partially as the result of the movement aw...
over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...
to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...