Discharge Teaching Plan Patient History Patient is a white female admitted with Mood Disorder NOS and R/O Bipolar Disorder. She has a strong family history—mother is positive for Bipolar Disorder and Anxiety Disorder and has attempted suicide 3X since January. Her uncle is positive for Personality Disorder. Patient was raped at her stepfather‚ sexually abused by her Grandfather whom she resides‚ and physically abused by her biological father whom she resided with for 6 months‚ prior to moving
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Dementia Awareness Unit 1. Explain what the term Dementia means 2. Describe the key functions of the brain that are affected by dementia 3. Explain why depression‚ delirium and age related memory impairment may be mistaken for dementia 4. Outline the medical models of dementia 5. Outline the social models of dementia 6. Explain why dementia should be viewed as a disability 7. List the most common causes of dementia 8. Describe the likely signs and symptoms of the most common causes
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affected person‚ through mosquito‚ air‚ water. Symptoms 1. Loss of 10% or more of body weight 2. Fever of unknown origin 3. Preumonia‚ brain tumours‚ haemorrhage‚ unremitting diarrhea‚ swelling of lymph glands. Role of youth in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention Today’s youth is going to build tomorrow’s future. They build the nation and they together build the world. Each one has his/her own responsibility in building a healthy
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This was the first day in the psychiatric unit. I worked with adolescents. I think working in a psychiatric unit is similar to any other floor. Nurses are charting‚ passing medications‚ assessment and discharge. On the other hand‚ there are some differences in this unit‚ eg‚ they have a lot of paper work to fill them out‚ therapy groups and the patients have schedule that they should follow through the day. It was a good experience to work in a psychiatric hospital because I need to improve my skills
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association between self-deception and moral self-concept as functions of self-consciousness Hui Jing Lu‚ Lei Chang ⇑ Department of Educational Psychology‚ The Chinese University of Hong Kong‚ Hong Kong a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 27 March 2011 Received in revised form 9 July 2011 Accepted 13 July 2011 Available online 6 August 2011 Keywords: Self-deception Morality Self-consciousness Helping intention a b s t r a c t Regulated by self-consciousness‚ self-deception is a part
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NGOs shows the awareness of the health hazardous and dreadful consequences of using plastic. As we all know that regular and prolonged dependence on plastic by the common people pushed the plastic items one of the most polluting agent destabilizing the ecological balance of nature as confirmed in the reports of various scientific research papers. In order to cap the further deterioration of the mother Earth with abuse of plastic stuff in day to day living‚ voluntary awareness as well campaign
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MDD‚ moderate with psychosis historically but no psychosis presently. Pt is presently transitioned to Riverside Acute Center due to making statements of self-harm and becoming aggressive towards staff that caused her to be restrained in Riverside Residential Unit. The therapist who has been working with her in residential believes that she is self-sabotaging. She has become increasingly volatile and has lost her temper often. She decided that she didn’t want to be in the program and wanted to leave
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The nursing shortage impacts the world in a prodigious way. The nursing shortage has an adverse impact on patient care‚ as well as on nurses. The causes of the nursing shortage are multi-faceted and there is no single measure that influences the declining issues. The most concerning issue of the nursing shortage is the decline in patient care‚ and positive outcome (Buchan‚ 2010). The research question in this study is the following: How does the nursing shortage affect quality of patient care
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Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the ordering scope
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Self-neglect : recognising features and risk factors Introduction Self-neglect in older adults is a serious public health issue and a social problem that can have profound consequences for the health and well-being of older people. It is characterised by an inability to meet one’s own basic needs and is an increasingly common problem‚ which can be intentional or unintentional (Gibbons et al‚ 2006). Those who self-neglect often live in extreme conditions of squalor and evidence suggests they are
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