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Homelessness, Mental Illness, and the Advocate Role

Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...

Leadership and Management in Nursing

management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...

Article Analysis: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness

inability to regulate decision-making behavior at such times is critical if relapses are to be avoided (Matto, 2007). In addition,...

Origins of Mental Illnesses

Treatment included drilling holes in peoples heads to release the evil spirits (Stoker, 2010). Other treatments included exorcism,...

Case Studies: Mental Illness and Treatments

are dysfunctional if their recall leads to distressing and/or dysfunctional responses (Paunovic, 2010). There are two major comp...

The Multiaxial Diagnosis of Mental Illness

disorders (Axis I), as well as the presence of pervasive or personality conditions (Axis II). The third axis allows for the ident...

Deviance: Mental Illness And Homelessness

crime was chemical or emotional disparity. From colonial times where people were chained to block walls in dark, dank dungeons an...

Holden, Mental Illness

mean a person who saves children from going over a precipice. As this indicates, he wants to be a "savor/ defender of the innocent...

One Mental Illness

and friends. Doctor Kohn calls it the most debilitating form of mental illness. The may because it can come on suddenly and becaus...

Diagnostic Approaches to Mental Illness

clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...

Medications for Mental Illness

consent. This presents many problems that begin with whether or not the psychiatrist should tell the patient or guardian every sin...

Analyzing John Nash's Mental Illness in A Beautiful Mind Film by Director Ron Howard

original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...

MENTAL ILLNESS AND INSANITY - THE LEGAL ISSUE

held criminally responsible for his/her behavior (Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity, 2010). After this particular finding and after...

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and Social Intervention

least. Description of Agency XYZ is a small organization that attempts to address the needs...

Homelessness and People Who Suffer from Mental Illness

cooperative effort between the psychological establishment and federal, state, and local governments - through policy initiatives ...

Depression: A Deeper Understanding

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...

7 Nursing Theory Issues

patient was in a significant amount of pain, he made jokes throughout his entire stay, as family members remained at his bedside. ...

Terminally Ill Patient, a Nurse's choice Not to Resuscitate, and the Resulting Lawsuit

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...

Nursing and the Concept of Reflective Thinking

In five pages this paper considers the reflective thinking concept from a nursing perspective with the emphasis on Bert Teekman's ...

Homeless Patients and a Nurse's Role

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...

Patient and Relationship Development, Illness Treatment and Coping

In six pages Erik Erikson's identity development stages are examined and then applied to a case study that involves a young cancer...

Philosophy of Nursing

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...

Theoretical Perspectives on Nursing

and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...

Nurse's Role in Patient Assessments

of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...

Theory-Driven Praxis—Personal Framework

Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...

Professional Ethics: Nursing Inmates

all aspects of professional nursing and a nurses obligation to patients to provide ethical and professional quality care. The firs...

An Interview with a Nurse Manager

Adams maintained that her experiences with nursing care and the structure of nursing services has changed in the past decade, and ...

The Impact of Schizophrenia

the family are high, exacerbated by the death of Davids father. Feelings Gibbs reflective cycle will usually focus in the feelin...

HTN and Transcultural Nursing

a discussion and review of literature that focuses on hypertension (HTN) among minority ethnic groups, with a particular emphasis ...

Influences on Patient Healthcare Service Provider Communication

information being given to the patient by the doctor. Anecdotal evidence from those who were patients at the time remember importa...