The Importance of Medications in Mental Health Case Study: The information collected for this paper is drawn from a case study of a 72-year-old white female. After her husband’s passing, she moved into a group home facility so that she could benefit from the services and aid they offered. She was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia more than 2 years ago and has been hospitalized five times in the past 2 years. Three of those hospitalizations have occurred in the past year. She also has a
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What is your view of “Professional Nursing”? Nursing is a profession that has its depth and breadth in meeting different health care needs of the population (American Nurses Association (ANA), 2010). What is it that makes a professional nurse? Is it caring for the patient with compassion and devotion? Based on the interviews conducted among the three categories of staff, it was echoed that professional nursing takes a lot more than just attending to the needs of patients. From
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individuals in the workplace and involves behaviors such as: belittling others, playing pranks on others, acting rudely, arguing, and physical aggression (Henle et al., 2005).Employees are, in principles, managed by the human resources department- a term which already indicates a first problem from an ethical perspective. As it is, the term human resource management and its implications have been a subject of some debate in business ethics ( Hart 1993; Torrington 1993; Barrett 1999; GreenWood 2002
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Individuals must first understand the realities of the social world in order to adapt successfully. The Eight Stages across the human’s lifespan are as follows: a. Basic Trust vs. Mistrust – from 0 to 1 year old or the Infancy Stage b. Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt – from 1 to 3 years old or the Early Childhood Stage c. Initiative vs. Guilt – from 3 to 6 years old or the Middle Childhood Stage d. Industry vs. Inferiority – from 6 to 12 years old or the Late Childhood Stage e. Identity vs
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Nickerson Columbia Southern University Abstract Business ethics in a hospital setting includes a review of many areas. Ethical considerations include the areas of patient care, nursing ethics, physician ethics, patient privacy, and medical billing practices. This paper will touch on ethical concerns for each of these topics. Keywords: hospitals, ethics, patient care, nursing, physicians Business Ethics in a Hospital Setting When beginning a discussion of business ethics in a hospital setting
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Christopher is a thirty-five-year-old, Caucasian, heterosexual, cisgender male. He has been married for six years, has one biological child and two step-children. A career military member, currently the rank of First Sargent; his wife is prior enlisted in the National Guard. This is a follow-up appointment, Christopher was seen prior by a different clinician in the military mental health organization. Recently Christopher was surprised to find that he had been placed on “non-deployable” status
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Introduction Palliative care is given to provide a comfortable environment for the patient who is dying and to improve quality of life by giving care to terminally ill patient. Palliative care is given to patient in relation to their cultural practices and spiritual needs (Davis and Kuebler, 2007) as the perceptions of a person about health and illness is defined by the cultural beliefs and values which are practiced in society (McGrath et al., 2006). Cultural diversity among various cultures is
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* Terminology Unit 1 * Mental Health- A state of well-being in which each individual is able to recognize his or her own potential, cope with normal stresses of life, work productively and fruitfully, and make a contribution to the community. * Mental Illness- maladaptive responses to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are incongruent with the local and cultural norms, and interfere with the individuals social, occupational
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OLIWA QUESTION : Discuss the ethical issues in research? DUE: 8 JULY 2013 LECTURER: HANIEL NJOGU MUCHIRI INTRODUCTION When most people think of ethics (or morals), they think of rules for distinguishing between right and wrong, such as the Golden Rule ("Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’’. This is the most common way of defining "ethics": norms for conduct that distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Most people learn ethical norms at home, at school, in
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0143-7739.htm LODJ 33,1 Are ethical theories relevant for ethical leadership? Michel Dion ´ Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada Abstract Purpose – The aim of this study is to know if ethical theories could be connected to some leadership approaches. Design/methodology/approach – In the paper eight leadership approaches are selected: directive leadership, self-leadership, authentic leadership
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