Nursing diagnosis: Ineffective coping Patient: 48 year old male admitted for alcohol dependence. Medical history includes anxiety‚ bipolar‚ PTSD‚ and hypertension. Pt had one suicide attempt in 2001. K+ at 3.2 upon admission. Pt claims his dependence on alcohol began when he was in the Air Force. He lives with an alcoholic partner who depends on him for housing. He was considering going to live with his mother after rehab. Nursing Diagnosis: Ineffective coping related to inadequate social
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Defensive driving is a concept of defending yourself but instead of a person‚ it relates to vehicles and others around you. Defensive driving is known within today’s military and also used within law enforcement. Regardless‚ these methods should be taught for teens all the way to elderly in order to help understand the indicators to react of potential hazards that may
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corollary to this were huge expectations and that the “happily ever after‚ growing old together” ideal was achievable. My perspective was geared into believing that her loss would only be through death. To consolidate the relationship‚ the primary method employed was through creating as
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Coping: How People Deal with Stress? Whether caused by schoolwork‚ traffic‚ or the job‚ stress is an inevitable phenomenon that is seen daily in the human life. Stress is not always bad. In small doses‚ stress is a good thing. It can energize and motivate a person to deal with challenges. But prolonged or excessive stress is “a negative emotional state occurring in response to events that are perceived as taxing or exceeding a person’s resource or ability to cope (Hockenbury & Hockenbury‚ 2001)
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poverty have lower cognitive and language development from stress‚ and the long-lasting effects that this stress may leave on the child. As well as‚ research into various coping mechanisms to lessen the effects of stress-induced poverty of a developing child. Keywords: Childhood‚ Poverty‚ Stress‚ Prenatal‚ Coping Table of Contents- Introduction The central research problem that will be discussed in this paper is the connection between poverty and stress. Specifically‚ how the stress
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3. Coping Strategies – The concept of coping strategies‚ “highlights the active or even proactive role played by the poor in providing for their own sustenance despite their lack of access to resources and services to an adequate income’’ (Schmink‚ 1984 cited in de Haan and Zoomers 2005‚ p.28). To cope with water deficit‚ both women and men were found carrying out a plethora of these strategies‚ with positive as well as negative outcomes. Some of these were noted during field visits. • In village
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Three Stages of Coping with a Mentally-ill Relative Having a mentally-ill family member affects the quality of life in the family in different ways depending on how well the family is coping with their relative’s illness. According to the authors of the article Effects of Mental Illness on Family Quality of Life‚ family members go through three distinct stages when coping with their relative’s mental illness. Although families can experience each stage in any order or time‚ generally the first phase
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The Things They Carried –Coping Mechanisms to Survive During the Vietnam war‚ soldiers were not exposed to the traditional coping mechanisms of our American society‚ as illustrated in Tim Obrien ’s The Things They Carried. These men were forced to discover and invent new ways to deal with the pressures of war‚ using only their resources while in the Vietnamese jungle. It was not possible for any soldier to carry many items or burdens with them‚ but if something was a necessity‚ a way was
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After reading "Coping with Stress: An Ethnography of Firefighters” I believe Rubenstein completed an ethnography. Through his use of observation and the interviewing of an informant‚ the author gained insight into how some firefighters deal with stress. Rubenstein faced a few challenges: he couldn’t observe or experience the major causes of stress on firefighters. He couldn’t ride with the firefighters to a call or have firsthand observations of a fireman’s actions inside a burning building. He
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Some Basic Active Learning Strategies Engaging students in individual or small group activities–pairs or trios especially–is a low-risk strategy that ensures the participation of all. The sampling of basic activities below can be adapted to almost any discussion or lecture setting. Using these strategies‚ or variations on them‚ ensures that you’ll hold your students’ attention in class and throughout the semester. Ice Breakers Background Knowledge Probe Two Column Method Think / Pair / Share One
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