or a friend or relative‚ have been diagnosed with dementia‚ you may be feeling anxious or confused. You may not know what dementia is. This factsheet should help answer some of your questions. The term ’dementia’ is used to describe the symptoms that occur when the brain is affected by specific diseases and conditions. These include Alzheimer’s disease and sometimes as a result of a stroke. Dementia is progressive‚ which means the symptoms will gradually get worse. How fast dementia progresses
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How Social Media Impacts Professionalism in Nursing With the introduction of face book and other social media sites‚ nurses are facing new challenges in professionalism. Professionalism in nursing is behavior that represents the nursing profession in a manner that promotes patient confidence and a flourishing employment atmosphere. (Hood‚ 2016‚ p. 13) Professional conduct must continue even outside of the nurse’s work place to prevent harm to patients and lose of integrity to the nursing profession
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3.1 Explain the nature of different professional relationships in health and social care. Within health and social care there are many types of professionals who work to increase service users health and well – being. The different types of professionals working with a service user may vary depending on the illness. Professionals who work along side the health and social services include GP‚ Nurse‚ CPN‚ Health visitor‚ Physiatrist‚ Occupational Therapists etc. (Nhscareers.nhs.uk‚ 2014) As
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Identify one health condition and discuss the impact on an individual and or wider society This essay will focus on the health condition of (HIV) Human immunodeficiency virus and its impact on an individual’s wellbeing. A number of key dictionary definitions will follow. According to the Oxford Dictionaries (2013) Health is defined as “A person’s medical and physical condition”. HIV is human immunodeficiency virus‚ a retrovirus which causes Aids. Oxford dictionaries (2013). These definitions
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prominent role in mental health. The basis for developing a personality according to Freud are to have the id‚ ego‚ and the superego. The characteristic that the individual has to show for falling into the antisocial personality disorder according to the psychodynamic theory is that the individual has a strong id‚ but a much weakened superego. This can result in having no conscious behavior. According to this theory‚ some bad childhood experiences must have happened to have the individual develop ASPD
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Mental health within childhood is a long standing problem within society. One in ten children suffer with mental health issues (Mentalhealth.org.uk‚ 2015)‚ by adopting different perspectives‚ models and explanations for childhood mental health‚ an evaluation can be made on the best course of prevention. The different views we adopt however have an effect on the way we think about the issue‚ such as the way we assess and identify it‚ how we treat it and most importantly how we try to prevent it (Kearney
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Assignment: Case Study {text:bookmark-end} Mental illness is any of various conditions characterized by impairment of an individual’s normal cognitive‚ emotional‚ or behavioral functioning‚ and caused by social‚ psychological‚ biochemical‚ genetic or other factors‚ such as infection or head trauma. Also call emotional illness‚ and mental disease. (www.thefreedictioary.com). No mental illness can not be define as a physical illness such as diabetes‚ because mental illness is that it can not be diagnosed
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Children Mental Health and Wellbeing Maryann Rieckers ECE/214 Instructor Kara O’Brien December 19‚ 2011 Childhood Mental Health and Wellbeing Doing the research I can see that there is a lot of mental illness in adults‚ but we don’t think about children as having mental illness. Many people still feel shame about admitting they are having problems with mental illness. As teachers we need to be aware that children can suffer from many different types of mental illness some are inherited
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CAN ANXIETY MANAGEMENT IMPROVE OVERALL HEALTH? According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America‚ “Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S.‚ affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older‚ or 18% of the population” (1). To fully understand the extent of this wide-spread issue‚ one must first know what anxiety is. According to Harvard Medical School’s health publications‚ “Anxiety is a reaction to stress that has both psychological and physical
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My personal statement Mental health I have chosen this field of nursing as I find all the elements fascinating due to the different challenges I would have to face. Nursing is a very challenging and demanding career; and this field especially so‚ however I feel the rewards would be great and that I am ready to embark on this career. I am ready and very eager to accomplish this career where i can help and care for people to the best of my ability and becoming a mental health nurse would allow me to
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