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
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Diabetic Nephropathy Introduction My grandmother means the world to me even though she may not know it. When my grand mother reached her early 40’s she was diagnosis with diabetes. My grand mother today is now 70 years of age. Through out the years of her having diabetes it has made her mentally strong but physically weak. From day to day, and through all the years my grandmother’s body broke down slowly but surely. Along with her diabetes my grand mother has also been diagnosis with high blood
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Other symptoms include signs and symptoms of the flu like chills, fever, diaphoresis, and weight loss. Urinary symptoms include hematuria. On physical exam the patient was pale because of the anemia and breath sounds included crackles and rhonchi. Urinalysis revealed gross hematuria, Shah, M., & Hugghins, S (2002). Educational Objectives and Instruction Jim’s goals are to understand the process that causes Goodpasture’s syndrome,
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Instructions Complete the medical abbreviations chart. (Note that the medical abbreviations are the same as those highlighted in yellow in Jane Dare’s Health Record). In the second column, list what each of the individual letters in the abbreviation represents. In the third column define the context or meaning of the term that the abbreviation represents. Use simple terms. Finally, in the far right column, identify the source document. For example, face sheet, discharge summary, progress notes,
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Brain Death Scenario Andrea Farmer Grand Canyon University: HLT 520 July 8, 2015 As an administrator I would need to take into consideration the patient’s autonomy, autonomy is recognizing an individual’s right to make his/her own decisions about what is best for them regarding their health care (Pozgar, 2012). The patient’s rights always should be considered before any decisions are made by any other family members. In this scenario it is clear that the patient is unable
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Best Approach to Treating Cocaine Addiction Melacia Cullars, Tommy Foster, Taylor Hagin, Mark Sturgess Psychology 335 February 16, 2015 Professor Jennifer Slothower Best Approach to Treating Cocaine Addiction Currently the research that Rawson et al. (2002) notes that methadone treatment is deemed the best treatment for cocaine addiction. Methadone is a synthetic agent that occupies the receptors that have been occupied by cocaine in the brain to relieve euphoria, intoxication and withdrawal
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schizophrenia. Mike I going through a lot things, but he is not seeing or hearing things that are not present. I would also rule out substance abuse because there is not evidence of substances present. Before I rule out substance abuse I would administer a urinalysis test, just to ensure that
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Makati Medical Center - College of Nursing SY 2011 – 2012 A Case Study Presentation on the Care of a Mother with Preeclampsia Superimposed on Chronic Hypertension In Partial Fulfillment of the Course Requirement of NCM102 – Related Learning Experience Submitted To: Submitted By: Leader: Knight, Catherine P. Members: Iglesias, Pauleen
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Hypertension Blood pressure is determined by the amount of blood your heart pumps and the amount of resistance to blood flow in your arteries. The more blood your heart pumps and the narrower your arteries, the higher your blood pressure. Hypertension is the consistent elevation of systemic arterial blood pressure. It is also the most common primary diagnosis in the United States (Brashers, 2010). It is one of the most common worldwide diseases afflicting humans. Because of the associated morbidity
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United States and has been operating since 1985. Some of the services offered by Bridgestone grouped generally are counselling, crisis intervention, detoxification and methadone maintenance. Under these services they offer patient assessment, lab urinalysis, case management, group counseling, individual counseling, crisis intervention, intensive outpatient, medical somatic, methadone maintenance and ambulatory detoxification totaling to 10 services. Operations of the center are overseen by
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