In addition, age and gender also play significant roles in influencing people’s perception and pain management. The authors determined that newly arrived immigrants and people who don't speak the local language tend to have “disadvantages with respect to treatment for painful condition”. When patients do not understand what their doctor are telling them or are insensitive to cultural differences, the quality and efficiency of healthcare services reduce significantly. Furthermore, in some countries, patients are only allowed to visit the doctors with the same sex. Therefore, delay in treatment may occur when they immigrant to a new country with a different culture.
Primary Fibromyalgia Syndrome Damika Green Pathophysiology August 16, 2010 Professor: Elizabeth Serbia South University Online Mrs. Oliver has pain and stiffness in the muscles and tendons of her shoulders, legs, and neck. She had osteoarthritis too. Her discomfort increases during stress. She is depressed. What may be the diagnosis?
The High Burnout and Turnover Rate of Registered Nurses Registered Nurses are the backbone of any major medical facility. They are the medical personnel you have your first interaction with in a hospital. Nurses are trained to put the needs of others before themselves. They endure emotional stress, as well as, other stress factors usually involved with the healthcare profession. There is an ongoing shortage of nurses, which along with emotional stressors, is said to be the cause of burnout among nurses.
As kind and compassionate as nurses can be to their patients, they can be just as mean and hateful to their colleagues. With knowledge comes responsibility. Horizontal violence is prevalent in the nursing profession, and the experience of this behavior is psychologically distressing, threatening patient safety, nurse moral, and nurse retention. To understand how to eliminate lateral violence amongst nurses, we first have to understand exactly what it is. WHAT IS IT Lateral violence is a devastating phenomenon in the nursing workplace.
Wound healing outcomes, described as epithelisation, reduction in size and healing rate, were significantly improved in the experimental group. Thus, Manuka honey was shown to be a superior treatment for chronic venous leg ulcers in one of the experimental measures (Gethin & Cowman, 2008). Limitations of this study included inability to blind examiners to treatment type (since Manuka honey stained the skin orange), and the limited number of participants. The researchers did attempt to minimize possible bias in examiners through other measures such as using several different examiners from different centers, quantitatively measuring wound tissue type and a standardized method of wound measurement. Increasing the number of participants was described as being “unrealistic” for this experiment (Gethin & Cowman,
Another example of how strain applies to these women can be seen in Agnew’s writings when he said “Data suggest that child abuse and neglect negative school experiences, chronic unemployment, and residence in deprived communities are important causes sate anger and that such anger explains much of the effective of strains on crime.” (Agnew, Chp. 9) The presentation of negative stimuli or in the case of the African American battered women this was the abuse they received, regularly, which will cause large amounts of strain. The way most of these women dealt with the abuse was through drug and alcohol
Topic Proposal NUR/598 XXXXXXX University of Phoenix Patricia Dehof XXXXXXX Poor job satisfaction is an issue being faced by many health care organizations. Nursing retention and inadequate staffing can occur as a result of job dissatisfaction. This paper presents a proposal to educate physicians and nurses on methods of improving collaboration and relationships. . There are many factors that can cause job dissatisfaction and turnover rates.
The condition is associated with job stress, certain bodily movements, and bending forward for prolonged periods of time. Chronic low back pain may call for the use of cognitive-behavioral therapy as well as physical therapy and medication. The available data on low back pain is thorough in its discussion of prevalence rates, major causes, and treatment options. Nonetheless, further research can help to clarify the best methods for self-management and coping among individuals suffering with chronic low back pain. 1,372 words References Katzman, M. A., Pawluk, E. J., Tsirgielis, D., D’Ambrosio, C., Anand, L., & Furtado, M. (2014).
In this context, sick leave due to back pain can sometimes be considered a medical solution to a work-related problem. 18 Recently, a negative orientation toward problems was found to be associated with higher levels of functional disability in employees with LBP. 19 In line with this, Shaw et al. 20 found low scores on positive problem-orientation and high scores on impulsiveness and avoidant style associated with functional loss in LBP patients. The authors suggest that the prolonged impact of LBP on daily functioning may be reduced by assisting workers to conceptualize LBP and its consequences as problems that can be overcome, and to use active strategies in reducing risks for LBP disability.
Americans’ personal experience with pain and the of • As prevalent and significant as chronic pain is in our society, we find that Americans rate chronic or recurrent pain as the least problematic item on a list of health issues that includes cancer, obesity, heart disease, alcohol or drug abuse, and AIDS. Surprisingly, even people who say that they are currently suffering from chronic or recurrent pain, and even those who say they experience severe pain often, rate pain at the bottom of this list. Americans overall downplay their experience with pain and the need to acknowledge