• Monitor lithium lab level PP 24 • Tx of bipolar disorder involves variety of drugs used to stabilize mood. Lithium, valproate, divalproex, carbmazepine, olanzapine, oxcarbazepin, lamotregine, quetiapine, and risperidone are examples of drugs used. Only lithium is approved by FDA for use in those 12-18 years. Early treatment is key to preventing chronic, serious mental illness. Nurses are instrumental in identifying children with this disorder, providing info to families and monitoring drugs
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JOHANA WOULMS 1. Explain what endometriosis is, how it develops, and what specific drugs are used to treat it. What is endometriosis? Often painful disorder in which tissue that normally lines the inside of your uterus, the endometrium grows outside your uterus (endometrial implant). Endometriosis most commonly involves your ovaries, bowel or the tissue lining your pelvis. Rarely, endometrial tissue may spread beyond your pelvic region. How does endometriosis develop? In endometriosis, displaced
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with other kids except for my older sister and my grandmother’s friend child. Since I was raised this way I have been the victim of an abusive relationship and I loathed myself for a longtime. I have been diagnosed with manic depression, bipolar disorder and PTSD. While these are medical diagnosis I believe it had a lot to do with the way I was raised. When a person is not given the right type of socialization and when a child is constantly being put down it is easy for them to see love in acceptance
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Name: Course: Lecturer: Date: Mental Disorders Mental disorders have become remarkably common in the modern day world. They have become common to the extent that some people fail to know that they have mental disorders. Other people tend to cover it up, when they understand that they have mental disorders. Mental disorders have existed in the world for many years. However, the understanding of mental disorders has been improving as new medical technologies, diagnosis, testing and interventions
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upright. Syncope means a brief loss of consciousness. The loss of consciousness is usually caused by a decrease in blood flow to the brain. Decreased blood flow to the brain can be caused by a reduction in cardiac output such as dysrythmias and disorders of the heart valves. The client was tested for both and was not positive for any cardiac illness. The client's ECG monitoring did show sinus bradycardia at times with her heart rate between 58 - 60 beats per minute. The bradycardia was correlated
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Mood Disorders, Schizophrenia, and Psychosis Mood Disorders, Schizophrenia, and Psychosis Many propose the question that for many years pondered the minds of many great theorists, and that is: What is a mood disorder, and how many personal dispositions or traits may a person actually possess? To date, a specific number has never been stressed. What is certain, is that mood fluctuates from individual to individual, and is a part of everyday life. Learning to adapt to multiple different moods
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Musician Suicide Ross A. Hudson Bryant University Suicide is an ongoing issue is society today. Every day, individuals take their own lives when the struggles of life become too much as well as a number of other reasons. But while to the general public suicide is a big enough problem, it seems to be only a bigger problem when it comes to musicians and other celebrities. one of the most famous cases happened 20 years ago when lead singer of Nirvana Kurt Cobain took his own life, leaving many
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life. The average women in 2015 reported a stress level of 5.3 out of 10.(apa 2015)18.1% of adults 18 and older in the United States are suffering from anxiety. 8.2% of adults in the US are suffering from either major depressive disorder or persistent depressive disorder.(adaa facts and stats) If a mother is in the top 15% in the population for depression and anxiety symptoms, the risk of the child having behavioral and emotional problems doubles.(Glover 2015). It is becoming apparent that research
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Chronic related to | |Obtain complete medical history including allergies, neurological , |depressive state. | |cardiac, renal, biliary, and mental disorders including blood |Thought Processes, Disturbed related to | |studies: CBC, platelets and liver enzymes,. |effects of drug therapy | |Obtain
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Confessional poetry emerged in the United States in the 1950’s. It was the first time a poet told his or her story through their poetry. It often explored ideas that were thought of as taboo in those times such as mental illness, sexuality, and suicide. Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton were two famous confessional poets. They both also suffered from mental illness which is often expressed in their poetry. Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” and Anne Sexton’s “Her Kind” both use allusions and imagery to
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