Developing Professional Practice – HS611 Introduction: For the purpose of this assignment the author has chosen to concentrate on developing professional practice within the Community Mental Health Team, where in they are currently employed. The focus group for the area of practice development is clients with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia, who are prescribed antipsychotic medication. This group of people have been chosen due to the increase chance of them developing uncomfortable, debilitating side effects as a result of taking these medicines. Some of these side effects can be treated but some are irreversible and can cause serious distress and discomfort for the client. Non-compliance with medication is often due to adverse effects however involving the clients in the recognition and management of them can help to overcome this.
Self-awareness is also an important factor in mental health/illness. Mental health/illness is more than a clinical or hospital implication but it is a state of being that effects everyone regardless if you are the patient or the one providing care. As nurses that provide health care, we must realize our own strengths and weaknesses by being self-aware and therefore increase our knowledge in providing care. Definitions Self-awareness is considered a component in emotional intelligence. It can be defined as the understanding of emotions and the recognizing of emotions as they happen and being able to identify between the different emotions that do occur in a given situation (Doas, 2012).
There are many ways to define pain as each person is different and may possibly have a way of defining pain. Assessment can be described as an evaluating process of something or someone. It involves the development of decision-making process and collection of information (Katon 2001). Management of chronic pain is defined as having control over the pain in terms of finding treatment, management may help reduce the unpleasant pain, and this will focus on pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to its management. Pharmacological management involves the use of drugs to help ease the patient’s pain or cure the pain (Monga & Grabois 2002).
Furthermore, although the patients have the autonomy to take their medical decisions, it is the physician’s duty to limit treatments that are considered medically futile for the patient. One of the most challenges faced by medical professionals is the demand made by patients or their family members for treatments that are considered futile in accordance to the professional standards of care. This paper discusses the ethical challenges associated with medical futility. First, the paper dicusses the conceptual and ethical analysis of medical futility provided by Mark Wicclair. This analysis presents three different aspects of futility and the difficulties associated with them.
Word Count:-2,423 DESCRIBE AND EVALUATE TWO APPROACHES TO THE TREATMENT OF SELF-DEFEATING BEHAVIOUR. THE APPROACHES SHOULD BE SELECTED FROM THOSE INTRODUCED IN MODULE 5. In this essay I will try and demonstrate my knowledge and understanding of the title, by describing and evaluating two approaches of the treatment of self-defeating behaviour. INTRODUCTION Self-defeating behaviour is a behaviour used to cope with a traumatic situation. It is then repeatedly used but often has a damaging effect on the person.
The principle Primum Non Nocere teaches the use of the least invasive methods necessary to allow the body to heal itself. A detailed look into a patient’s history and habits can help identify what level of intervention is required based on how severe their symptoms are. Another distinguishing factor of naturopathy from conventional medicine is the principle Tolle Totem. In order to find out the underlying cause of what might be making a patient sick enough time needs to be spent asking the right questions and investigating deeper than their symptoms. Good health is more
Holistic approach is nothing else than looking at the all aspects. We can use a normal, conventional medicine, but we can also try alternative and other therapies to try to minimise pain, discomfort and other symptoms of service user needs at that stage of treatment. That is why is so important that care plans are made individual for a specific person, to ensure that they will receive support which will meet their health requirements, but as well will focus on their other needs, lifestyle and culture aspects too. Those care plans needs to bring a full comfort and support, needs to promote a dignity in their life and peace, so the healing process will be more affective. It is important to use a holistic approach as it will gets us to the roof of the problem, the reason why the service user is having a pain to begin with, as some of it may be coming from another part of body, some pain maybe emotional, some will be from stress of life, it maybe as well a worry of their future health, etc.
As they focus on and worry about physical sensations, a cycle of symptoms and worry begins, which can be difficult to stop. People who have a history of physical or sexual abuse are more likely to have this disorder. It is important to have a relationship with a health care provider. The doctor should tell you that you do not have a disease, but that continued medical follow-up will help control the symptoms. Antidepressants such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) can help reduce the worry and physical symptoms of this
Andrew Diaz Argumentative Paper 2.1 Introduction: Recently, a major dispute has arisen over the types treatments leading doctors and researchers are prescribing to their patients suffering to cope with the effects of chronic pain. The argument sparked when some non-medical researchers argued that doctors prescribing patients schedule two drugs are becoming addicted to the medication they are taking. The non-medical researchers are saying that there are non-addictive ways of getting rid of the pain associated with chronic pain by using different methods such as acupuncture, massage therapy, physical therapy, and yoga therapies. It is my view that contrary to doctors prescribing schedule II medications does more harm than good to patients.
For most hospitals manage, leaders, doctors, nurses are concerned about communicable diseases from patients, especially if the medical staff cannot obtain medical records. Management and leadership should take ethical issues serious, having a well written code of ethic and training the health care professionals to adopt patient welfare as his or her primary responsibility, and making ethical decisions that arise in health care (Dogra,