...Running head: CASE STUDY LS Mental Health Case Study LS Nicole Castro College of Southern Nevada Division of Nursing Mental Health Nursing Clinical NURS 243C-S10 Micki Lin Mongogna-Alarcon, MA, BSN, RN October 18, 2010 Mental Health Case Study DM Demographic Data: LS is a 44 year-old female of African and Hispanic decent. She was born in California but moved to Las Vegas as a teenager. She stated that she attended Clark High School and went to a “stewardess college” in California. She worked as a stewardess for 4 years and quit in 1986. Her father was African-American and her mother is Hispanic. She has 4 brothers and 2 sisters. She is married and lives with her husband and his son in their private home. She has two children, fathered by her ex-husband, who are now in custody of LS’s mother. Her children were taken away from her, by the court, due to her abuse of drugs and alcohol. LS stated that her father abused alcohol and that all of her brothers and sisters abused drugs and were diagnosed with bipolar disorder. LS stated that she started noticing symptoms of what she thought was depression 6 years ago but was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2005. Her chart stated that she has had an 11 year history of bipolar disorder. Presenting Problem: LS stated that she had not been taking her medications for four days because her husband forgot to pick up her medications from the pharmacy. However, her chart stated that she was off of her medications...
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...Mental Health Case Study Ron Kovic is a Caucasian-American male, 71 years of age, who was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after serving two tours of duty with the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam war. The patient was also paralyzed from the chest down after being shot first in the right foot, which tore out the back of his heel, then again through the right shoulder, suffering a collapsed lung and a spinal cord injury during his second tour. Consequently, the patient spent a week in an intensive care ward in Da Nang military hospital in central Vietnam before being sent back to the United States and admitted at a Bronx veteran’s hospital in New York. The patient hailed from a Roman Catholic family, whose...
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...Mental health affects people of all shapes, sexes, ethnicities, and economic backgrounds. This also includes prisoners held in state correctional facilities across the United States of America. In 2012, there were an estimated 356,268 inmates with severe mental illnesses in U.S. prison and jails compared to the 35,000 mentally ill individuals who were in state psychiatric hospitals. (Cited) “CASE STUDY”: In 1999, a thirty-five year old man from Ohio was sentence to prison. He served six years for his crime and then later served an additional four years for “failure to register”. While in prison, his children were no longer speaking to him, friends deserted him, and he lost his mother and father. This “rehabilitated” convicted felon is now forty-nine years old, homeless, jobless, and has no marketable work skills. He has contemplated suicide on multiple occasions and has often thought about returning back to prison; purposely....
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...Mental/Behavioral Case Studies Tony Claiborne HCS/245 November 26, 2014 Lori Olson Jim Wolf is a 45 year old store owner who constantly washes his hands. He continually checks and rechecks his part lists, equipment, and his employee’s schedules. After his wife raises concerns about his work performance and inability to sleep, he is referred to a physician. A psychiatrist has diagnosed him with OCD. OCD is an anxiety disorder that has two parts, obsessive and compulsive. The obsessive portion relates to an individuals consistent thought process or emotion over things. The compulsive portion relates to the individual not being able to resist the act of performing acts. With OCD, the individual is unable to stop their thought processes or action in doing tasks (Neighbors, 2014). Based on the disease and stage it presents, Jim should receive a primary level of care. The two main types of treatment for OCD are psychotherapy and medications. Receiving both types of treatment should allow Jim to live a better life without having the anxiety about his daily compulsions. Jim and others can find more information about the cause, effect, and treatment options available from their primary care provider (PCM) or from reputable medical journals and hospital websites. The Mayo Clinic offers some valuable and reputable information at http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ocd/basics/treatment/con-20027827. Coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder can be challenging. Medications...
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...the purpose of the paper: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the increased incidence of non-adherence mental health medications in the homeless population 2. State the problem your intervention addresses, and target population: The problem is limited knowledge about different support services, and being able to access, retain and follow treatment plan. This simply boils down to limited knowledge regarding community resources and being able to know how to access those resources The target population is the mental health Homeless Population in California/Yolo County 3. State your proposed intervention: The intervention is a supportive service program intended to assist the mental health homeless population in guiding them to be able to seek local resources so they can access, retain, and follow their treatment plan, and limit the amount of...
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...Goal 1: Naudia will stabilize her mental health symptoms. Naudia's mother informed the team Naudia is getting adequate sleep because she takes naps throughout the day. Naudia's mother acknowledged, "I have not talked to Naudia about her rape because I don't know how she will take it if I bring it up." Naudia has been reluctant to talk about the trauma she faced which has been a barrier to treatment her anxiety. Naudia's mother reported, "Naudia asked me to testify against the man; however, I don't feel like she is ready to see him." QP has assessed Naudia has made moderate progress with stabilizing her mental health symptoms, as indicated by Naudia not having any SI and getting adequate sleep each night. Goal 2: Naudia will improve her behavior at home and in the community. Naudia's mother stated, "Naudia struggles with cleaning her room and being organized." Naudia has not engaged in any stealing. Naudia's drug results came back negative for any drug usage. Naudia's mother informed the team they have a good relationship and she is no longer interested in out of home...
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...Case 1 Outline 1. A child is seen by a general practioner in an office setting for flu like symptoms. The child removes his shirt upon request to reveal bruises on his torso. The mother is questioned about the bruises, she explains they are from a procedure known as “cao gio”, also referred to as “coining”. This procedure is done to raise bad blood and improve circulation. This is done by rubbing warm oils or gels on a person’s skin with a coin or flat metal object. When the stethoscope touches his skin, he winces with pain. The question is, should the mother be reported to Child Protective Services? 2. Ethical issue identified is the Right Approach. 3. Facts of Case# 1 A. Child has flu symptoms B. Child has bruises C. Child is...
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...Jade July 26, 2015 Mental/Behavioral Case Studies My 57-year-old client, Mr. Speed, has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. At this time, he seems to be in the early stage of the disease, and I feel that he would benefit from medication and therapy. He lives with his wife, and both of them are employed full time. He would like to continue working and living life to the fullest. Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, is a brain disease that progressively destroys thinking skills and memory. Although the cause of this disease is unknown, researchers believe that the accumulation of the protein amyloid in the brain may contribute to its onset. Although most individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease are 65 years of age and older, it is not uncommon to develop the disease at a younger age, like my client, Mr. Speed. Early-onset Alzheimer’s has been known to affect people in their 50’s.Jade Galvan HCS/245 July 26, 2015 Mental/Behavioral Case Studies My 57-year-old client, Mr. Speed, has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. At this time, he seems to be in the early stage of the disease, and I feel that he would benefit from medication and therapy. He lives with his wife, and both of them are employed full time. He would like to continue working and living life to the fullest. Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, is a brain disease that progressively destroys thinking skills and memory. Although the cause of this disease...
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...Case Summary The patient, a 23-year-old male (date of birth September 30, 1994), presented to the facility’s Emergency Department on February 27, 2018, with a history of schizophrenia, seizure disorder, polysubstance abuse (ETOH, marijuana, heroin and BZDs), opiate intoxication, depression and suicidality. The patient was admitted to the Medical Center on February 27, 2018. The following diagnoses were submitted: Admitting Diagnosis of altered mental status; Principal Diagnosis of seizure disorder; Secondary Diagnoses: enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile; suicidal ideation; sedative hypnotic or anxiolytic dependence with withdrawal; opioid dependence with withdrawal; other psychoactive substance use unspecified with mood disorder;...
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...last 5 years she has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, Glaucoma, and Hypertension. Jan visits the doctor for wellness checks on a regular basis and is currently taking a few different prescription medications and vitamins. She orally takes the prescription medications Benztropine for Parkinson’s disease and Aldactone for hypertension. She applies Istalol eye drops for Glaucoma symptoms. She also takes Vitamin B and Iron supplements daily for proactive health guided by her doctor. Jan is concerned about falling, as she has been experiencing moments of imbalance and dizziness throughout the last two weeks. She appears mostly stable, but one instant of her losing her balance, and then catching herself, was observed. Jan also has tremors in her hands and stooped posture. Jan reports that these symptoms are symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, but worries the recent onset of imbalance and dizziness may be caused by her new hypertension medication, Aldactone. She has no other obvious external displays of poor physical health; her skin is not bruised or discolored, she does not have any persistent coughing or sneezing, and over than the aforementioned symptoms of imbalance, dizziness, and shakiness, she presents to be physically healthy. There are no observable signs of abuse or neglect, and through talking further with Jan it can be determined that abuse and neglect are not a worry at this...
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...was immediately brought back to the extensive training I had in my graduate studies to which focused on humanizing our clients by recognizing the unique identity a person has and how it relates to the different systems of their current society. It was relieving to see that an established organization had a focus on a strength based approach when facilitating healthy change within a client, as it was the foundational piece to my Latino Mental Health concentration. Also, it is also very important that I find employment at an organization that recognizes how discrimination and stigma are immediate issues within several diverse community which needs to be addressed to provide ethical and productive...
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...Explain how the community agency is handling this problem Comcare mental health centers provide mental health rehabilitation services for adults and children who has mental illness and addiction problem like substance abuse. The goal of comcare is to provide affordable mental health services designed to improve their clients function ,quality of life and to prevent the need for more intensive and expensive mental health treatment in the in future. Comcare believe that 1. Mental health and chemical dependency is a treatable disease 2. Recovery is an ongoing process and when to treatment building a strong foundation is very important. 3. Everybody need to be involved, team approach is necessary for meeting our patients’ physical, emotional,...
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...Mental Health Courts are effective in reducing recidivism Mental health courts operate in State level and link offenders who would ordinarily be prison-bound to long-term community-based treatment. Mental health courts, after a mental health assessment to the offenders, choose individualized treatment plan, so cover the needs of offenders and public safety. Although mental health courts vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but most share the following characteristics: A specialized docket. Judicial supervised, community- based treatment plans for each defendant participating in the court. Regular status hearing at which treatment plans are review for appropriateness. Criteria defines a participant’s competition of the program. In Broward County, Florida, has had low recidivism rates for mental illness offenders. Sheriff Jenne indicates that the cost is $80 per day to house a general population inmate and $130 a day to detain a person with mental illness; in Miami the cost of treating inmates with mental illness is $125 per day, while the cost for healthy inmates average $18 a day. “By diverting inmates with mental illnesses from the jail to Community treatment in Pinellas County, Florida, treatment cost $60 a day per individual diverted” (Slate, and Johnson, 2008)....
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...begin with a brief explanation of the meaning of a holistic approach to understanding mental health conditions, it will outline four mental health disorders and evaluate the usefulness of a holistic approach to understanding the conditions, the paper will conclude with a summary of the main points made. The holistic approach in understanding mental health conditions looks at the whole person and explores biological, psychological and social aspects of an individual. The holistic approach dictates that these interdependent factors be examined to provide explanation and inform possible interventions, a biopsychosocial perspective is a type of holism (Toates, 2010, pg.19). Engel, 1977, rejected the narrow principles of the biomedical model in favour of a biopsychosocial model to increase understanding of mental health conditions (Engel, 1977, cited in Toates, 2010, pg.14)....
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...between marriage of young adults and mental health. In other words, how marriage influence on mental health. Actually, some recent researches have been indicated that the marriage itself bears a mental health benefits, indeed the age at first marriage, life cycle and transition to adulthood are all the identical variables, which may describe the influence on mental health. Hence, this article was organized to test the main hypotheses, how the marriage confer mental health in accordance with different life course. The reason for studying this particular phenomena and interestingness of this issue is probably that this current issue has been rising and becoming popular in our modern days. Millions of examples of early marriages, high rate of divorce and abandoned children, amount of uneducated people, are all consequentially have an impact on mental health with what lot of young adults face with. In this study, the author is willing to answer the for several questions which might explain the causal relationship between marriage and mental health of young adult, beside this he classified young adults into different categories to analyze what sort of mental health outcomes would arise out of different group of adults. The questions, which are assigned to this study, are: a. What is the effect of marriage on mental health and other relationship circumstances? b. What kinds of effect does it carry? c. Is there differences among mental effects as result of first marriage age...
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