people with severe and enduring mental illnesses are at an increased risk of contracting serious illness‚ for example‚ diabetes‚ coronary heart disease and obesity (DH‚ 2006 a). The ‘Refocusing the Care Programme Approach’ 2008 document‚ discusses the links between mental ill health and physical ill health and the consequential increase in the rate of mortality and morbidity for those with mental health illness. The possible reasons for these inequalities include; side effects from medication leading to
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Assessment Tool: Varying Cultures Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V Heritage Assessment Tool: Varying Cultures Introduction The Heritage Assessment Tool is designed to “give nurses an understanding of the patient’s traditional health and illness beliefs and practices so that culturally appropriate interventions can be initiated. The tool is a series of twenty nine questions. These twenty nine questions are designed to determine a patient’s ethnic‚ cultural‚ and religious background‚” (Flowers
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Thus‚ patients should be told all relevant aspects of their illness‚ including the nature of the illness itself‚ expected outcomes with a reasonable range of treatment alternatives‚ risks and benefits of treatment‚ and other information deemed relevant to that patient’s personal values and needs. Treatment alternatives that are not
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poverty in the developing world are the key determinants of health. According to the world health organisation (WHO) definition of health‚ defines health as a state of complete physical‚ mental and social wellbeing and not just the absence of disease‚ illness and injury. As indicated by WHO it means we are ill-health anytime we fall short of complete wellbeing which means that majority of the population are likely to be ill-health at all times. Health is the capacity for everyday living that enables
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significant problem in Kazakhstan as tuberculosis. The first and immediate cause of high incidence of tuberculosis in our country is the poor quality of life. For example‚ during war as the standard of living decreased‚ people often got sick with an illness because at the front they had not time to watch over the health. Soldiers were at war on cold‚ they were hungry‚ and it reduced their immunity and their organism easily caught a cold.
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Intensive Care Units (ICUs) have undergone an impressive improvement and expansion over the last 50 years. Evidence strongly supports that the presence of a specialized critical care team which is directed by a dedicated intensivist physician as a leader reduce patients’ mortality and morbidity.1‚2 High quality care to critically ill patients also requires the adoption of a 24/7 intensivist model of critical care and the appropriate training‚ credentialing‚ and dedicating to critical care of all
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Alcoholism is a big problem because it can not always be cured‚ it is a disease‚ and treatment does not always work. Alcoholism can be cured by these 3 ways. You can go to treatment for alcoholism‚ but you are not always guaranteed a positive outcome you can be an outpatient during the week‚ and be home on weekends‚ or you can check into a sobriety house. Treatment does not always work for these reasons; you could relapse‚ sobriety houses don’t always work/help‚ you could check into a sobriety house
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a very wide range of mental illness were unwanted by their families and usually sent to asylums where they were‚ for lack of a better word‚ warehoused. When Dr.Freeman became director of St.Elizabeths hospital in Washington D.C‚ he was appalled. The patients of the hospital had disgusting dirty conditions in which to live‚ they were agitated‚ and there was no treatment available to help them. When Dr.Freeman began practicing the only known treatment for mental illness was shock therapy. Shock therapy
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opportunity to acquire the information needed to improve the well being of the patient. According to Dinga and Karvinen (2008): The purpose of therapeutic communication is to 1) provide a safe place for the client to explore the meaning of the illness experience‚ and 2) to provide the information and emotional support that each client needs to achieve maximum health and well-being (p. 6). According to Epstein et al. (2000)‚ effective therapeutic communication requires 5 elements: Rapport‚
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As medical advances are being made‚ it makes the treating of diseases easier and easier. Mental hospitals have changed the way the treat a patient’s illness considerably compared to the hospital described in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. " Please understand: We do not impose certain rules and restrictions on you with out a great deal of thought about their therapeutic value. A good many of you are in here because you could not adjust to the rules of society in the Outside World‚ because you
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