Respiratory Discharge Nurse Specialist (Nurse Led Discharge) A Concept Paper for the course Evolving Roles of the Nurse in Education‚ Practice and Research Raymund Christopher R. dela Peña Saint Louis University Background Patients who are well enough for discharge are sometimes spending hours or days longer than they needed to in hospital waiting for the next doctor’s ward round. At the same time‚ patients in the emergency department are waiting for a bed to become available so they
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Homelessness and Mental Illness Intervening in the lives of the homeless could help save their lives. Many of the homeless population have some sort of mental illness or disorder. This could be anything from PTSD to Schizophrenia to Bipolar disorder. These people are without their regular medication‚ which can cause their diseases to take over. Without any family support‚ many of these people turn to robberies to get their medication. Some even turn to suicide when they can take no more. Even
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Understanding paranoia What is paranoia? Are there different kinds? Who is most vulnerable to these feelings? What are the causes? What treatments are available? What can family and friends do? Useful organisations Further reading ‘The couple next door are listening in on me‚ I know it. I saw her in the street yesterday and she looked away.’ ‘The postman is reading my mail. One of my letters last week was not stuck down. He knows all my secrets.’ ‘My son’s behaving so strangely; he suspects
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Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth is depicted as unstable and considerably insane. However‚ for this paper‚ I will seek to diagnose Macbeth with schizophrenia‚ which is a mental disorder characterized by the deterioration in one’s brain and personality as seen in a person feeling‚ conduct and thoughts. Beside these general character traits of a person suffering from schizophrenia‚ the diseases specifically results to incoherent conversations and hallucinations. All these elements of a schizophrenic are found in
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INTRODUCTION Schizophrenia (from the Greek roots skhizein ("to split") and phrēn‚ phren- ("mind") is a severe mental illness characterized by a variety of symptoms including but not limited to loss of contact with reality. Schizophrenia is not characterized by a changing in personality; it is characterized by a deteriorating personality. Simply stated‚ schizophrenia is one of the most profoundly disabling illnesses‚ mental or physical‚ that the nurse will ever encounter (Keltner‚ 2007). There
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Discharge Criteria in Day Surgery The continuing increase in day surgery procedures has led to a number of issues‚ as nurses are challenged to provide the best possible care within a short time frame as well as to minimize the length of hospital stay. Utilizing the evidence from the literature‚ I am focusing especially on factors that lead to a delay in discharge and the introduction of guidelines to overcome the issue. I presently work the day surgery unit of a new hospital and
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Improving Individual Health Practices and Patient Understanding through Comprehensive Discharge Education Improving Individual Health Practices and Patient Understanding through Comprehensive Discharge Education. As healthcare enters a new frontier with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)‚ millions of previously uninsured Americans will flood the healthcare market. As members of this complex and vast healthcare system‚ individuals
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Introduction The patient M. is a 26 year old married female who was brought to the ER by her husband after increased anxiety and depression worsened after a “spiritual attack” that lasted for over four days. While in the ER the patient admitted to hearing multiple distant male and female voices all around her head and outside of her head. She states not being able to make out the message but interprets them to be negative in nature. She told the ER Doc she felt people were trying to
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Discharge Facility Case Study HW is a governmental agency handling the waste water treatment of the state. The Administration & Main Sewage Treatment Plant is situated about 15-20 minutes from the airport and is within the Industrial Area. They are currently operating a waste water treatment plant with an average capacity of 55‚000 m3/day. The flow ranges from 53‚000 to 57‚000 m3/day on peak and off-peak time. There is a current demand to expand the plant’s hydraulic capacity to 100‚000 m3/day
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create new challenges today. Schizophrenia is a devastating disorder that has tragic effects and very little treatment options. Schizophrenia is a serious illness. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that is characterized by disturbances in thought‚ perception‚ and behavior‚ by a loss of emotional responsiveness and extreme empathy‚
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