Uncertainty in illness is present for both acute and chronic illnesses and can be described as a cognitive stressor‚ a sense of loss of control‚ and a perceptual state of doubt which is dynamic in nature. Illness uncertainty can be associated with poor adjustment‚ but often needs to be evaluated as a threat to have its deleterious effect. For example‚ illness uncertainty in pain populations is related to increased sensitivity to pain and reduction in tolerance of painful stimuli. Illness uncertainty
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Chamberlain College of Nursing 506 Policy Priority Issue Lisa Borbon Chamberlain Healthcare Policy NR506 Professor Frazier July 27‚ 2013 Policy Priority Issue Those who utilize the Medicaid system range from low income families to the over 65 age group. Within this population is also those who are disabled due to physical or mental problems. This is among the sickliest of our American population. A paper based on a study in Oregon stated that “Medicaid significantly increased
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INTRODUCTION Finding out that you have a terminal illness can be emotionally and physically very painful. People respond differently when they are newly diagnosed with a condition that has a poor prognosis. The general reaction of the patient involved is one of shock or disbelief however the experience is unique for each person and their family or loved ones. This essay will discuss the varying responses a patient undergoes once newly diagnosed with a condition that has a poor prognosis.
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‘inclusive practice’ has come to mean many different things. It could be said that it is in fact a contestable term used to different effect by politicians‚ bureaucrats and academics. ‘Inclusion’ is not a single movement; it is made up of many strong currents of belief‚ many different local struggles and countless forms of practices. (Clough‚ 2000) Similarly as Booth (2000) illustrate‚ definitions of inclusion are contestable. What is meant by ‘inclusion’ varies from culture to culture‚ society to society
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the special provision requires by children and young people with whom they work. (The information gathered here is from http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm84/8438/8438.pdf) There are different types of provision for children such as Special educational provision‚ health provision and social care provision and they apply to different ages differently. Special educational provision for a child aged two or more or a young person is training provision and education provision as well as
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Chronic illness is a term applied to a broad range of diseases that is long lasting in its effects and that vary greatly both in their essential characteristics and the ways in which they affect a family system and its adaptive functioning. Every family is a balanced system and after learning of a member’s chronic illness‚ a family will experience some loss of equilibrium. The illness can cause emotional distress throughout‚ impair the ability to properly support the member and particularly if each
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Terminal Illness ALS can be considered as a terminal disease if the patient is expected to develop a fatal outcome within a period of 6 months. During the initial stages of ALS‚ the lesion tends to be localized‚ but this would not help to determine the duration for which the patient would survive. During the end-stages of the disease the muscle denervation becomes extensive and spreads to various parts of the body. One of the important factors in determining the outcome and also the terminal nature
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CONSIDER THE LOBSTER The enormous‚ pungent‚ and extremely well-marketed Maine Lobster Festival is held every late July in the state’s midcoast region‚ meaning the western side of Penobscot Bay‚ the nerve stem of Maine’s lobster industry. What’s called the midcoast runs from Owl’s Head and Thomaston in the south to Belfast in the north. (Actually‚ it might extend all the way up to Bucksport‚ but we were never able to get farther north than Belfast on Route 1‚ whose summer traffic is‚ as you
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Escape From the Cave In his article “Consider the Lobster”‚ David Foster Wallace pointed out that the lobsters would suffer pain if cooked alive on the basis of many scientific materials about the lobster that announced by different organizations‚ trying to figure out if it is moral to cook the lobsters alive. Although he fell in an ethical dilemma at last‚ just as most people‚ struggling between the moral problem and the selfish interest in eating certain kinds of animal‚ he did not evade querying
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MENTAL ILLNESS Mental Illness Natalie Maxwell March 8‚ 2010 Each year‚ almost 44 million Americans experience a mental disorder. In fact‚ mental illnesses are among the most common conditions affecting health today. The good news is that most people who have mental illnesses‚ even serious ones‚ can lead productive lives with proper treatment (www.yahoo.com). Mental illnesses are some of the most misunderstand afflictions in today’s society. Too many people think of mental illness as a
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