Using SwabCap® to Reduce the Number of Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSIs) Dawn E Bennett Joliet Junior College Nursing 260 Using SwabCap® to Reduce the Number of Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSIs) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), every year health care associated infections (HAIs) affect 5% of hospitalized patients in the United States. CLABSIs are a deadly HAI, with a mortality rate of 12%-25%. In 2009, the number of CLABSIs in an Intensive care unit (ICU) setting was estimated at 18,000, and for patients in an inpatient ward was an estimated 23,000. Patients receiving hemodialysis as an outpatient in 2008 had an higher rate of CLABSIs, with an estimated
Outline and evaluate psychological explanations of schizophrenia (24 marks) Brown and Birley studied stressful life events in the role of relapse in schizophrenics. They found that 50% of people experience a stressful life event e.g. death, relationship break-up, job loss etc. in the 3 weeks prior to a schizophrenic episode. A control sample reported a low and unchanging level of stressful life events over the same period.
Worldwide schizophrenia is a major public health issue. The term is often confused with split personality or multi personality disorder. It is estimated that 1% of the world’s population is affected by schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a long term mental illness that affects people’s feelings, thoughts and behaviour. Psychologists have always argued the nature- nurture debate and with schizophrenia they are no different.
PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA Paranoid Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness in which reality is distorted, also known as psychosis; people with Paranoid Schizophrenia cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. Paranoid Schizophrenia is one of the most common diagnosed forms of Schizophrenia; it only affects 1% of the general population, about 2.2 million people. People diagnosed with schizophrenia make up about half of all patients in psychiatric hospitals and may occupy as many as one quarter of the world's hospital beds. People with schizophrenia have problems remembering, paying attention, and communication .Some researchers believe Paranoid Schizophrenia develops as a young child, but major symptoms do not affect the mind fully until
Lots of pre- and early adolescent children with bipolar disorder are more severely ill than adults with the disease. Around 25% of children with bipolar disorder are seriously suicidal and have a much higher risk for mixed mania, multiple and continuous cycles, and a long duration of illness without a gap in between (Suicide Rate, 2007). According to the National Mental Association statistics 30 to 70% of suicide victims have suffered from some kind of depression. Interestingly, men commit almost 75% of these suicides, even though twice as many women attempt it (Statistics,
There are several ways CBT aims to do this; one technique getting the patients’ reality-test their hallucinations and delusions. This attempts to show the schizophrenic that their cognitions are incorrect, so they might learn to correct them. Evaluation A positive of CBT is that it puts the power in the hands of patient, as it equips them with what they need to fight schizophrenia. Senksy et al found that CBT was effecting for patients for whom drug treatment hadn’t worked. Also Senksy found it helped with both positive and negative symptoms, and patients continued to improve after the therapy course had finished.
Alternative health and complementary therapy practitioners tend to use the positive definition of health as a part of their practice much more than traditional medical practitioners. For example someone who suffers from depression but has a good level and exercise but no disease is still not healthy according to the positive definition of health given
Public health focuses not only on traditional areas of diagnosis, treatment, and aetiology, but also disease prevention, and access to evaluation of services (Friedli, 2010). Mental health is a state of successful performance of mental function, resulting in productive activities, fulfilling relationships with other people, and the ability to adapt to change and to cope with adversity. It is indispensable to personal well-being, family and interpersonal relationships, and contribution to community or society. It is easy to overlook the value of mental health until problems surface (Wrycraft, 2009). Yet from early childhood until death, mental health is the springboard of thinking and communication skills, learning, emotional growth, resilience, and self-esteem.
In a more narrow and specific research, the National Institution of Mental Health reported that suicide was the third leading cause of death among youth ages 15 to 24 in 2007 (NIMH 2007). In 2011, the American College Health Association (ACHA) performed the National College Health Assessment (NCHA), which was a nationwide survey of college students at two or four year institutions, and found that about 30% of them testified having felt so depressed at some point in the past year that they find it difficult to
There has been research and it stated that schizophrenia affects men more commonly than it affects women (Sadock & Sadock, 2003). It is classified as a psychotic mental disorder and it affects people behavior and causes social problems. The mental problems that are coordinated with schizophrenia are explained as psychosis, with that the persons thinking is completely separated from reality (para. 1). Schizophrenia has affected about 1.3 percent of the population, it happens after the age of 25 (Sadock & Sadock,