Case studies have been great tool for me to learn evidence based nursing that will be put into nursing practice. Retrieving information‚ recognizing deviations from “normal”‚ interpreting and prioritizing data to plan patient specific interventions are all skills that I have developed from case study analyses. Different from SIM where we have to think on our feet and rely on the skills that we have learned‚ theory case studies are written‚ allowing us to track a nursing issue through all the stages
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Patients who present to the ER with abdominal pain are often complicated cases with the abdomen housing so many organs. Trying to figure out what is going on with your patient is made more difficult because of referred pain. When trying to figure out where to start remembering your ABC’s will assist in determining if your patient is stable or unstable. Remembering which organs are located within each abdominal region will assist you in narrowing down the potential diagnosis. With the ER patient
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Patient is a 65- year- old‚heterosexual‚ upper middle class‚ a caucasian female who has been fighting esophageal cancer for the past year and a half. The patient is married with two adult children. She resides at home with her husband and has an exceptionally supportive immediate family‚ friends‚ and relatives. Patient has an older sister whom she is very close with. She reports having a job that she takes great pleasure in. Patient has experienced a difficult time coping with her cancer diagnosis
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lectured the class about cognitive-communication disorders. She presented several video clips that demonstrated her techniques when working with patients facing a cognitive-communication disorder‚ in a clinical setting. The goals for each therapy session included restoring the patient’s function and compensating for their deficits‚ so they can eventually process and communicate normally. Ms. Moss began the class by stating a cognitive-communicate disorder results from problems with any feature of communication
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personality disorder is a disorder that sounds like many people could have. However just like other disorders there are some requirement that each person must meet in order to diagnose them with this disorder. Social workers should be able to differentiate this disorder from other disorder by ensuring that the client meets all of the criteria for this disorder as well as ensuring that they are familiar with the DSM. Some symptoms for this disorder that are different from other disorder is that the
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In order to develop an effective approach to treating PAS‚ Gardner states that a professional needs to examine the severity of the PAS in the child. Gardner suggest that the disorder has there subtypes—mild‚ moderate‚ and severe. In cases of mild PAS‚ where the child visits the alienated parent voluntarily‚ Gardner states court orders are not necessary and “recommend[s] that the alienating parent still retain primary custodial status because that parent has usually been the primary caretaker throughout
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criteria with Major Depressive Disorder because of her depressed mood‚ lack of interest or pleasure in her life‚ increasing lethargy and low energy‚ and feelings of worthlessness. However‚ it was ruled out from her diagnoses because it was insufficient to meet at least five of the symptoms of MDD. For example‚ it was not reported that her ability to think or concentrate is diminished and she also denied any suicide attempt or self-harm.
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Cluster C consists of personality disorders in which nervous and fearful comportment is dominant. People with these personality disorders are often viewed as antisocial and reserved. Cluster C personality disorders are made up of the following: Dependent personality disorder Avoidant personality disorder Anankastic (Obsessive-Compulsive) personality disorder. Dependent Personality Disorder is a mental disorder where the sufferers exhibits an excessive need to be taken care of‚ submissive‚ needy
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This case pertains to a 14-year-old female called Lady MacBeth of undisclosed ethnicity who has been undergoing treatment in an inpatient facility for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The client reported that her symptoms began during the year prior to her admission into the facility. Her treatment seems to have progressed successfully. Diagnosis In order to be diagnosed with OCD‚ an individual has to have symptoms of either obsessions or compulsions (or both) which consume more than one
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Individual research Paper Claudine Robinson CSNL 526 January 12‚ 2012 Dr. Michelle McGuire Individual research Paper Bipolar Manic Depression Bipolar Disorder is a mental illness that affect between 0.8% and 1.6% of the population that is at least one out of every 100 persons. It affects women as well as men and usually starts somewhere around a person’s teens or late twenties. This particular depression has to do with mood swings and causes people to go from highs/cheerful and blissful
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