Many of the injured individuals were injured by grenades, gaseous agents, bombs, or bullets. These weapons lead to missing limbs, broken bones, and the nurses seen blood every day. Hospitals were developed, medicines were created, surgical procedures, and even the ambulance all were developed during World War One. The individuals hurt severely had to have immediate care or they would die, and most of those hurt eventually died. In the field of medicine, physicians were familiar with Louis Pasteur’s germ theory and knew of Joseph Lister’s discoveries in the fields of bacteriology and antisepsis.
Other early warning signs that Mr Lusk has presented with are deficits in language often people with Dementia forget how to speak simple words which can impact on the ability to have a conversation with the person, judgement, insight and thinking are also signs of Dementia people with Dementia have a hard time with abstract thinking and can’t problem solve as well as they use to. All the deficits that Mr Lusk has presented with do help confirm that Mr Lusk is suffering from Dementia. (Croft, 2010) 2. What investigations would help to confirm a medical diagnosis of Dementia? Mr Lusk had a mental exam performed on him when he was admitted to hospital which did show signs of memory loss and impaired cognitive functions other investigations that would help confirm a medical diagnosis of dementia would be to take a clinical history from the patients family, a
This assignment will describe my client’s lived experience pertaining to stigma due to a life threatening disease. The purpose of this paper is to explore my client’s phenomena to understand why individuals get stigmatized by society. In writing this paper I will follow LEARN framework (College of Nurses of Ontario, 1996), which will assist me in critical reflection of the chosen concept of stigma. I will synthesize the definition of stigma from three articles, elaborate on attributes, antecedents and consequences of stigma; discuss risk factors that may prevent successful adaptation of my client and finally identify nursing interventions. My client is a 55- year old male; I will call him Mr. A., to protect his confidentiality.
COSOLIDATING: REFLECTIVE PRACTICE. INTRODUCTION: In this reflective essay, the writer intends to explain the concepts of reflection. Analyse and critically reflect on his professional development throughout the branch pathway during his training placement programme. Among the module undertaken are perspective of mental health, therapeutic use of self, patient focus, restoring mental health, supervision and management of care. With the use of Gibbs and John’s reflective model, the writer will critically examine acquisition of clinical knowledge and skills.
John (2003) reflection is a window through which I can view and focus self within the context of experience in ways that enable to comfort,understand and resolving the contradictions within practice of what is desirable and actual practise. There are two different types of reflection in which nurses may be involved; 'reflection on action and reflection in action'.For the purpose of this reflection I will be guided by John's model. Reflection on action, is the process that I will be undertaken in this essay which is retrospective analysis of incidences that happen in my chosen topic. According to Ginsberg et al, (2007) constipation is defecation that is unsatisfactory because of rare stool, difficult stool
This allows the results to be generalised. Weaknesses The hospital staff was deceived - this is, of course, unethical. Although Rosenhan did conceal the names of hospitals or staff and attempted to eliminate any clues which might lead to their identification. Rosenhan did note that the experiences of the pseudo-patients could have differed from that of real patients who did not have the comfort of knowing that the diagnosis was false. Perhaps Rosenhan was being too hard on psychiatric hospitals, especially when it is important for them to play safe in their diagnosis of abnormality because there is always an outcry when a patient is let out of psychiatric care and gets into trouble.
I will dedicate a large portion of this essay to reflect on the case formulation process itself, assessing my efficacy in teaching the “five aspects” model. I will look at how well I communicated principles behind the SETB cycle (B - C thinking, NATS, Interdependence etc) and how well the patient could relate the model to his own issues. From these findings, I will suggest strategies and interventions that I will employ in subsequent sessions before finally concluding with a self rating of my skills as a CBT therapist in this session. The Patient The patient (who I will refer to as “Alan”) is a 31 year old man who has been imprisoned (at HMP Ford) for death by dangerous driving - a claim he strongly refutes. Alan had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after being involved in a car accident wherein his girlfriend and an oncoming female driver were fatally injured.
The focus of this assignment will be placed on the authors’ assessment by eliciting information of the patient’s presenting condition. In accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Professional Conduct, (NMC, 2008) confidentiality will be maintained. To do this a pseudonym will be used and the patient would be known as Mr Alba. Mr Alba was a 27 year old man who presented to the medical centre complaining of abdominal pain in the right iliac fossa (RIF), with nausea and vomiting for the past 24 hours. On arrival to the medical centre the author introduced himself while observing Mr Alba posture for clues about aetiology.
Next to conclude this assignment one will go on to assess the contribution of motivational interviewing to nursing practice. Motivational is defined as “a skillful clinical style for eliciting form patients their own good motivations for making behavior changes in interest of their own health”. (Rollnick et al 2008). Motivational interviewing was developed by professionals working in the area of addiction. Theses specialists were focusing on patients particularly with alcohol addiction.
A Communication Based Reflective Essay This essay is a reflective account of a situation in practice where an aspect of communication played a crucial role in the care given. Reflection is essential for health professionals as it helps to prevent habitual practice and improves quality of care (Crawford, Brown & Bonham, 2006). For the purposes of this essay I am using Gibbs (1998) reflective cycle. I have chosen this model as it ensures that the experience is reflected in a logical order using six distinct stages. A woman self referred from home to delivery suite contracting, after examination the woman was found to be in the latent stages of labour.