YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Nursing Perspective on Patient Mental Illness
Essays 211 - 240
Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...
management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...
inability to regulate decision-making behavior at such times is critical if relapses are to be avoided (Matto, 2007). In addition,...
Treatment included drilling holes in peoples heads to release the evil spirits (Stoker, 2010). Other treatments included exorcism,...
are dysfunctional if their recall leads to distressing and/or dysfunctional responses (Paunovic, 2010). There are two major comp...
disorders (Axis I), as well as the presence of pervasive or personality conditions (Axis II). The third axis allows for the ident...
crime was chemical or emotional disparity. From colonial times where people were chained to block walls in dark, dank dungeons an...
mean a person who saves children from going over a precipice. As this indicates, he wants to be a "savor/ defender of the innocent...
and friends. Doctor Kohn calls it the most debilitating form of mental illness. The may because it can come on suddenly and becaus...
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...
original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...
held criminally responsible for his/her behavior (Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity, 2010). After this particular finding and after...
least. Description of Agency XYZ is a small organization that attempts to address the needs...
cooperative effort between the psychological establishment and federal, state, and local governments - through policy initiatives ...
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...
patient was in a significant amount of pain, he made jokes throughout his entire stay, as family members remained at his bedside. ...
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...
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...
Adams maintained that her experiences with nursing care and the structure of nursing services has changed in the past decade, and ...
the family are high, exacerbated by the death of Davids father. Feelings Gibbs reflective cycle will usually focus in the feelin...
a discussion and review of literature that focuses on hypertension (HTN) among minority ethnic groups, with a particular emphasis ...
information being given to the patient by the doctor. Anecdotal evidence from those who were patients at the time remember importa...