ROLE OF NURSE IN COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH INTRODUCTION The trend in psychiatric care is shifting from that of inpatient hospitalization to a focus of outpatient care within the community. Community mental health services include all those activities in the community connected with mental health other than the institutional or hospitalized setting. The community approach focuses on the total population of defined geographical area rather than individual patient. Emphasis is mainly on preventive services
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Death Investigations and the Role of the Forensic Nurse Death Investigations and the Role of the Forensic Nurse INTRODUCTION "Above all‚ realize that nursing care doesn ’t have to stop because a patient has expired. We can do so much more for people who suffered questionable deaths by focusing on forensics. Nurses can help families gain closure and assist law enforcement with their investigations because we have cared enough to maintain the integrity of the evidence." (Erricksen‚ 2008
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Professional Roles and Values Performance Assessment Written by: XXXXXXXX Student ID# XXXXXXXXX Regulatory agencies‚ such as a state board of nursing‚ are government agencies that regulate nursing practice. They act to ensure nurses are competent in their practice and that standards of practice are met. These agencies examine nursing education programs‚ and are the ones who approve and accredit them. The agencies are responsible for granting licensure for nursing professionals and oversee
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health record (PHR) is a very useful tool for patient and not to be confused as medical records. Personal health Record is electronic file or record designed to help patients manage their health information and be more involved in their health care‚ while a medical record is patient health record manage by healthcare providers. Over the years‚ as technology is progressing and the amount of healthcare providers are increasing‚ we found that more and more patients are participating in their health care via
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will define the role of the nurse in healthcare and outline the different qualities required for this profession. Berridge and Liddle (2010) demonstrate that the definition of nursing according to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is “the use of clinical judgement in the provision of care to enable people to improve‚ maintain‚ or recover health‚ to cope with health problems and to achieve the best possible quality of life‚whatever their disease or disability‚ until death.” A nurse is an individual
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------------------------------------------------- Colorectal cancer From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Colorectal cancer | Classification and external resources | Diagram of the lower gastrointestinal tract | ICD-10 | C18-C20/C21 | ICD-9 | 153.0-154.1 | ICD-O: | M8140/3 (95% of cases) | OMIM | 114500 | DiseasesDB | 2975 | MedlinePlus | 000262 | eMedicine | med/413 med/1994ped/3037 | Colorectal cancer‚ commonly known as bowel cancer‚ is a cancer from uncontrolled cell growth in the colon or rectum (parts
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Oral English Test (O.E.T) Script Interview : Poisons in the Air Hisyam : Assalamualaikum and Hello everyone. Welcome to ‘Teen Talk’. I’m your host‚ Mohd. Hisyamuddin. First and foremost thanks for coming to everyone. The Topic today is Air Pollution‚ and here to talk about is a very young and handsome environmental scientist at the University of Malaya‚ Dr. Hamiddey Esa. Good morning and welcome‚ Dr. Hamiddey. Dr. H : Good morning Hisyam. Hisyam : Shall we start now Doctor? Dr.H : Yes
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Union nurses during the Civil War played an important role inside and outside the battle‚ their decision to join the war‚ duties‚ and experiences helped shape the American Woman while creating a new piece of history. The Civil War began April 12‚ 1861 and ended in April 9‚ 1865 when General Robert E. Lee‚ of the Confederate Army‚ surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant‚ General Chief of the United States Forces‚ in Virginia. However‚ during the battle between the Union and the Confederacy‚ the Union needed
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care workers‚ friends and associates (Leuckenotte 2000). Nurses play an important role in protecting older people from abuse. Their roles include reporting the abuse‚ assessing the patient‚ ensuring there is a safety plan in place and assessing the frequency‚ severity and intent of abuse (Mauk 2006). Nurses need to be educated in abuse so they can clearly and quickly recognise the signs and symptoms of suspected abuse and begin to protect patients (Daly and Coffey 2010). Main Body: Abuse of the
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A very good morning to our English teacher‚ Madam Lee and my fellow classmates. Today I am going to talk about the synopsis and the themes with textual evidence about novel we study in form 4 ‘QWERTYUIOP’ written by Vivien Alcock. The synopsis for ‘QWERTYUIOP’ is about a poor‚ young graduate named Lucy Beck who has just finished her ‘O’ levels at Belmont Secretarial College. She is a slow learner herself but she is determined to find a job in order to get out of poverty. Fortunately
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