CLINICAL ASSESSMENT 04/02/2015 PSY/270 CATHY MATRESSE Other information I would require in the assessment of Clara’s diagnosis‚ and question’s I would ask of the parents‚ would be for instance: “How long has Clara been in their personal care? When they adopted her‚ was their anything
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use of clinical psychologists in the courtroom has become a growing epidemic. While many argue that the treating therapist can play both a therapeutic and forensic role‚ what they fail to realize is that the vast differences within the two fields will create more turmoil than good. In clinical psychology‚ for instance‚ the general goal is to identify and attend to mental deficiencies whose focus is on compassion and support. Forensics‚ on the other hand‚ involves psychological evaluations that
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Clinical Documentation System Excelsior College October 6‚ 2013 Clinical Documentation System Clinical information system (CIS) collects patient data in real time‚ stores healthcare data and information using secure access to the healthcare team. (McGonigle & Garver Mastrian‚ 2012‚ p. 554). The CIS that is used at Texas Health Dallas is CareConnect. CareConnect is used by all of the Texas Health Resources (THR) encompassing 25 hospitals‚ affiliated physician
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This week was the first time I did my clinical rotation as an FNP student and it was absolutely a completely new world for me! Why? First‚ I was expecting to just follow my preceptor who is a PA as I mentioned before. However‚ it was great that I an opportunity to follow my PA’s supervising physician who is a surgeon! Before going any further‚ I would like to share that I am in a specialty clinic – hand surgery - a subspecialty of orthopedics. The clinic deals with issues related to the elbow and
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The fourth skill in self-management is self-efficacy. This is an individual’s belief that they have the ability to achieve each goal in certain situations. It is important to keep the goals in mind whilst thinking positively and visualising success. The second guiding principle is empowerment. Empowerment is important in chronic illness care as it give the patient the confidence in providing their own care. An example of giving empowerment to a patient is enabling them to perform their own subcutaneous
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Clinical Reflection: This week in clinical I had my first real labor and delivery experience. My patient‚ RW‚ was admitted for pre-Eclampsia and headache. She was my first patient to be married and older than me‚ so my experience was a little different. One of the most striking complications of her pregnancy was her obesity. She had a BMI of 49.89‚ which complicated her FHR monitoring‚ mobility‚ and labor progression. RW had also had back surgery which was complicated by osteomyelitis
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Women ’s University‚ Master of Arts in Nursing Theoretical Framework for Nursing Practice – Module 4 A. Look for an example of middle-range theory. Evaluate it as to the following (Be sure to justify your answers): 1. Congruence with nursing standards. 2. Congruence with current nursing interventions or therapeutics. 3. Evidence of empirical setting‚ research support and validity. 4. Use by educators‚ nursing researches or nursing administrators. 5. Social relevance
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that I had no experience dealing with people who were suffering this way. I was not prepared to have these conversations with grown people and I surely was not prepared for the emotional aspect of the job I had accepted. The clinical experiences that I had had were at a nursing home and that prepared me for the physical facet of the job‚ but that‚ I quickly realized‚ was the only condition that where I felt
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HISTORY OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY ROOTS OF RESEARCH & ASSESSMENT IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY The evolution of the field of clinical psychology after Lightner Witmer can be best understood through an examination of how clinical psychologists came to be involved in each of four different activities: Research‚ Assessment‚ Treatment‚ and Prevention. Clinical psychologists became involved in these endeavors at different points during the twentieth century and for very different
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Approaches to Clinical Psychology PSY 480 October 25‚ 2010 Approaches to Clinical Psychology Clinical psychology involves the assessment‚ diagnosis‚ and treatment of mental illnesses that affect human behavior (Plante‚ 2005). Of all psychology’s disciplines‚ clinical psychology is the most intriguing‚ both for subject matter and diverse employment opportunities. A common thread in clinical psychology is the multiple perspectives that exist to explain how mental processes influence human
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