YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Nursing Perspective on Patient Mental Illness
Essays 181 - 210
such as tragedies, deaths, serious injuries or threatening situations, require the human being to respond in a way that intensifie...
characteristics that clinicians would place within the scope of mental disorders would not necessarily be perceived as problematic...
have a twin who reflects the same mental illness (Edlin & Golanty, 2010). Slide 6: Epigenetic Change Non-hereditary biological ...
scenario indicates that the student, as a patrol officer in a local city police department, has been dispatched to address a situa...
as a central tenet to professional practice (Hanks, 2010). Both the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics and the Code ...
Safe and secure housing is but one of many rights withheld from those whose circumstances – whether through mental illness, financ...
clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...
consent. This presents many problems that begin with whether or not the psychiatrist should tell the patient or guardian every sin...
disorders (Axis I), as well as the presence of pervasive or personality conditions (Axis II). The third axis allows for the ident...
are dysfunctional if their recall leads to distressing and/or dysfunctional responses (Paunovic, 2010). There are two major comp...
crime was chemical or emotional disparity. From colonial times where people were chained to block walls in dark, dank dungeons an...
original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...
and friends. Doctor Kohn calls it the most debilitating form of mental illness. The may because it can come on suddenly and becaus...
least. Description of Agency XYZ is a small organization that attempts to address the needs...
held criminally responsible for his/her behavior (Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity, 2010). After this particular finding and after...
cooperative effort between the psychological establishment and federal, state, and local governments - through policy initiatives ...
mean a person who saves children from going over a precipice. As this indicates, he wants to be a "savor/ defender of the innocent...
ADHD assessment tools"; he also questions how ethical it is to give "dangerous and addictive drugs to children" (Stolzer, 2007, p....
Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...
inability to regulate decision-making behavior at such times is critical if relapses are to be avoided (Matto, 2007). In addition,...
management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...
necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...
range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...
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...
inmates is due to the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric services, which began in the 1960s, as this trend resulted in the rele...
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...
the inherent differences between models. Ultimately, an individual chooses a nursing model that is based upon and compatible with...
36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...