1. Historical Perspective of Mental Illnesses in the Philippines Pre-Spanish Regime During this period the Filipinos believed in a world that was equally material and spiritual. The concept of illness was based on the belief in such material and spiritual worlds‚ thus the treatment of both physical and mental illness depended heavily on the valid and authentic rituals and ceremonies aimed at converting the punishment and at the same time maintaining and protecting the psychological well-being and
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Personalized Handout in NCM 205 for Finals by: Mark Anthony A. Demaguil BSN 3A Schizophrenia & Other Psychosis Schizophrenia – splitting of the mind & cant defined as a single illness Diagnose during late adolescence 15 to 25 for males 25 to 35 in females Categories of Schizophrenia 1. Hard / Negative Signs & Symptoms 1.1. Delusion – fixed false belief & has no basis 1.2. Hallucination – false sensory perception or perception experiences 1.3. Grossly disarrange behavior 2.
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a concept pertaining to psychiatric nursing. As stated in my autobiography presented the first week in our class discussion board‚ I have a second love for psychiatric nursing. I have found‚ that while being a registered nurse‚ many nurses that have never worked in a psych unit‚ with their only experience in psych was in their clinical rotation while in undergraduate‚ is most times perceived as a negative and dangerous specialty of nursing . It’s true! psychiatric nursing is not for everyone. Some
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LEVEL OF STRESS AND PSYCHIATRIC NURSING PERFORMANCE OF SENIOR STUDENTS EXPOSED IN BABISTA HOSPITAL A Thesis Presented to the College of Nursing Notre Dame of Midsayap College Midsayap‚ Cotabato In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement In Nursing Research 401 Proponents: Darwin Ryan Arandilla Donna Marie Leonida Maria Vina Laroscain Ellen Grace Ramerez Jim Marvin Maguate Alvin Managbanag Kristine Mae Alipe Rosene Pascual Justine Baya September 2010 TABLE
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To my future colleagues‚ Psychiatric nursing is a challenging career laden with ethical‚ moral‚ and judicial dilemmas. In this letter I hope to equip you with tools to adequately face these inevitable challenges. I will particularly focus on the consideration of ethical principles‚ as I believe they are critical to maintaining your integrity as nurses. This letter will discuss the application of ethical principles in reference to three morally distressing situations outlined in the research Mental
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Psychiatric Nursing Case Study History The subject is a 52 year old divorce Caucasian female‚ of Poland origin‚ and has lived in the United States for over 20 years. She had been a patient at Tewksbury Hospital since July 2011. She reportedly has a long history of bizarre and impulsive behavior‚ but has had a steady decline since her divorce in 2004. The patient denies history of taking medication or hospitalization for mental illness. There is no history of mental illness in the family. The
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dopamine Positive symptoms- hallucinations‚ delusions‚ illusions Negative symptoms- (depression) anhedonia‚ avolition‚ flat affect‚ associative looseness Drug‚ Dose‚ Route‚ and Frequency | Usual and maximum dose. | Drug Classification and Action | Nursing Implications andMajor Side Effects | Why is this client receiving this drug? | Chlorpromazine (Thorazine) | 200-1‚600mg qd PO | Conventional AntipsychoticDopamine antagonists‚ only works on positive symptoms | Sedation‚ Hypotension‚ AnticholinergicErectile
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Nursing Code of Ethics Lisa Lang West Texas A&M University NURS 4345 Professional Nursing Leadership/Management Nursing Code of Ethics The focus of this paper is to discuss the Nursing Code of Ethics. The purpose of this paper is to review the purpose‚ background‚ and the importance of the Nursing Code of Ethics and evaluate how the Nursing Code of Ethics improves individual nursing practice. Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary defines the Nursing Code of Ethics as‚ “A statement
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Ethics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing_ethicsThe nature of nursing means that nursing ethics tends to examine the ethics of caring rather than ’curing’ by exploring the relationship between the nurse and the person in care.[1]Early work to define ethics in nursing focused more on the virtues that would make a good nurse‚ rather than looking at what conduct is necessary to respect the person in the nurse’s care. However‚ recently‚ the ethics of nursing has also shifted more towards the nurse’s
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