...This essay will explore the care plan for the patient with a long-term condition and the necessary health promotion advice. According to NMC (2008) nurses must deliver care based on the best available evidence or best practice. This will be accomplish by assess patient, plan of care and intervention. In addition the author will explain the use of evidence-based practice for the safe delivery of care and the evaluation of patient’s outcomes. During the author’s placement, she met Mr John Wood, aged 68, who was admitted in hospital for the elective surgery of total knee repair. He is diabetic, has high blood pressure, asthma and is obese. He has lived with these conditions for the past twenty years, and he managed by medications. He quit smoking in 1979. He is independent and still working full time as a machine operator. In addition he is a main carer for his partner who has terminal illness. During the assessment Mr John seems well. Apart from the health conditions which are managed well by medication, his obesity was the priority for his health. It was with this knowledge of Mr John and his identified needs that the author used to draw up a meaningful plan of care. Planning is the second phase of the nursing process (Johns 2000). In this phase, the nurse develops a plan to assist the patient to meet needs identified in the assessment process (White 2003). According to Aggleton and Chalmers (2000) planning of care is necessary to identify the problems or needs...
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...with underachieving explanatory style (Kamen and Seligman, presented in lecture). Intrigued by the information, I investigated my own problematic explanatory style and related negative results. I hope to identify my own behaviors, feelings, thoughts, and changes in both psychological and neurological perspectives. As my graduation-time comes closer, I had to make a big decision of my life. It was my life changing decision of whether I stay in the United States or go back in my home country. Frankly, I have already made a decision to go back to South Korea a while ago. Yet, I was often confused and nervous about the decision that I have made because of my explanatory style. Since I do not have a plan other than preparing for a graduate school from the moment I leave the school, I know it would be better for me to have optimistic beliefs constantly reminding myself, “I will be okay and I will do just fine.” However, it was surprisingly challenging because I tended to have pessimistic thoughts about my forthcoming uncertain future. Erikson’s theory with varying degrees of skepticism explains my pessimistic ways of perceiving the situation and self-doubt habits. According to Erikson’s approach called a theory of psychosocial stage, I must have developed mistrust or...
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...discipline of psychology to the promotion and maintenance of health, the prevention and treatment of illnesses’ Matarazzo (1980). As health psychology is widely related to health the definition of healthy is by the World Health Organization (WHO) 1948 saying that health is ‘the state of complete physical, social and spiritual well-being, not simply the absences of illnesses’. As psychology is the science of behaviour and change; psychologists have helped to influence change in people’s life. As health psychology is interested mainly in health and health maintenance rather than on diseases and disease prevention. It was found in the 1970s when many countries (western) began to suffer from diseases and death in result to declining expenditures, to resolve the situation health promotion strategies were introduced. As there are many factors that courses diseases for example smoking which leads to diseases like cardiovascular disease, to investigate the relationship between health behaviours, health and disease outcomes studies would be done. To support this essay on how theory and research in health psychology has been helpful or unhelpful in addressing human problems Studies by Belloc and Breslow (1972) and Breslow and Enstrom (1980) was in support the study looked at the relationship between health behaviour and life expectancy in a population. Results showed individuals that leaved a healthy lifestyle had better health...
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...Chapter 1 SIGMUND FREUD AN INTRODUCTION Sigmund Freud, pioneer of Psychoanalysis, was born on 6th May 1856 in Freiberg to a middle class family. He was born as the eldest child to his father’s second wife. When Freud was four years old, his family shifted and settled in Vienna. Although Freud’s ambition from childhood was a career in law, he decided to enter the field of medicine. In 1873, at the age of seventeen, Freud enrolled in the university as a medical student. During his days in the university, he did his research on the Central Nervous System under the guidance of German physician `Ernst Wilhelm Von Brucke’. Freud received his medical degree in 1881and later in 1883 he began to work in Vienna General Hospital. Freud spent three years working in various departments of the hospital and in 1885 he left his post at the hospital to join the University of Vienna as a lecturer in Neuropathology. Following his appointment as a lecturer, he got the opportunity to work under French neurologist Jean Charcot at Salpetriere, the famous Paris hospital for nervous diseases. So far Freud’s work had been entirely concentrated on physical sciences but Charcot’s work, at that time, concentrated more on hysteria and hypnotism. Freud’s studies under Charcot, which centered largely on hysteria, influenced him greatly in channelising his interests to psychopathology. In 1886, Freud established his private practice in Vienna specializing in nervous diseases...
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...therapy does not have a single founder. Rather, it has been a collective effort by many. We have selected a few individuals who have made significant contributions to feminist therapy for inclusion here, recognizing full well that many others equally influential could have appeared in this space, Feminist therapy is truly founded on a theory of inclusion. member of the board of trustees of the last two. In recent decades, Dr. Miller has been collaborating with diverse groups of scholars and colleagues to continue development of relational/cultural theory. She has been expanding this theory and exploring new applications to complex issues in psychotherapy and beyond, including issues of diversity, social action, and workplace change. C J EAN BAKER MILLER is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at...
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...Psychological Bulletin 2007, Vol. 133, No. 1, 65–94 Copyright 2007 by the American Psychological Association 0033-2909/07/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.133.1.65 The Nature of Procrastination: A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review of Quintessential Self-Regulatory Failure Piers Steel University of Calgary Procrastination is a prevalent and pernicious form of self-regulatory failure that is not entirely understood. Hence, the relevant conceptual, theoretical, and empirical work is reviewed, drawing upon correlational, experimental, and qualitative findings. A meta-analysis of procrastination’s possible causes and effects, based on 691 correlations, reveals that neuroticism, rebelliousness, and sensation seeking show only a weak connection. Strong and consistent predictors of procrastination were task aversiveness, task delay, selfefficacy, and impulsiveness, as well as conscientiousness and its facets of self-control, distractibility, organization, and achievement motivation. These effects prove consistent with temporal motivation theory, an integrative hybrid of expectancy theory and hyperbolic discounting. Continued research into procrastination should not be delayed, especially because its prevalence appears to be growing. Keywords: procrastination, irrational delay, pathological decision making, meta-analysis Procrastination is extremely prevalent. Although virtually all of us have at least dallied with dallying, some have made it a way of life. Estimates indicate...
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