1. Coast Guard aviation personnel do not seek assistance for stress, mental strain or illness until it is nearly overwhelming and may have caused permanent damage to their health including suicidal ideation or attempts. Aviation members are not protected within the confidential programs through CGSUPRT; if a member chooses to seek help for stress he/she must divulge what is supposed to remain confidential in accordance with ref. (b), to the flight surgeon in accordance to ref (a). Aviation medical policy found in Ref.…
Factors such as age, grief, fear, pain and stress also have an impact on them as well as their families cognitive abilities. Patients on her infusion unit are often accompanied by family members who are then utilized by her to convey important health information to the patients.…
Post-Outbreak Impact Management After the outbreak was under control, survivors faced negative attitudes, prejudice, and psychological impacts. One way to alleviate these problems was through treatment centers (B, L). Countries in West Africa have a shortage of mental health professionals; Sierra Leone doesn’t have a psychiatrist and Liberia has only one (B). Treatment centers post-outbreak would aid in ensuring survivors’ mental health was stable. Additionally, family and community resilience significantly supported survivors (T).…
This literature review will examine the pre-existing research undertaken on family presence during adult resuscitation (FPDAR) to determine health professional attitudes and experiences in critical care environments regarding FPDAR within Europe. The topic FPDAR was chosen due to the authors experience whilst in placement of a family member being refused permission to remain with their loved one during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The reason the family member was refused permission to remain at the bedside was because there was no hospital policy that stated if a family member was or was not permitted to remain. The author wanted to understand why FPDAR was not being encouraged in practice as the role of a nurse is to provide patient with…
Exploring the Experience of Compassion Fatigue Among Nurses Nurses pride themselves on being able to bring compassionate care to patients and their families. During their care for ill and injured patients, nurses witness intense levels of tragedy. When nurses are unable to relieve the stresses brought on by their accumulating suppressed grief, they can reach a breaking point which is referred to as compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue is defined as a combination of physical, emotional, and spiritual depletion associated with caring for patients in significant emotional pain and physical distress (Houck, 2013; Schroeter, 2014).…
Other variables that influence the interaction are: the hospice patient, patient’s friends and family members, interdisciplinary care team providers (especially hospice nurse providing assistance and education), and the attitude/emotional stability of the caregiver (i.e., anxiety, emotional pain, fear). The outcomes of this protocol will be systematically measured using the following scales: caregiver Quality of Life (QOL) scale scores, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) scores, and Problem Solving Inventory (PSI) Scale scores (D’Zurilla and Nezu,…
Chronic illnesses are only dealt with in the medical aspect. Physicians typically overlook the social aspect of these illnesses. However, how the patient functions in their day-to-day lives with a chronic illness is just as important as treating the illness. With any chronic illness, continuum of care is important. This would ensure that the patient is receiving the proper care in regards to the chronic illness and any other illness that may occur.…
An acute condition is severe and has a sudden onset. An acute condion only lasts a short time, a few days to a few weeks. Acute condtions are often caused by an injury, a virus, an infection, or by misuse of medications or drugs. Acute condtions have distinct symptoms that require short-term care and get better after being treated. Some examples of acute conditons include strep throat, flu, common cold, pneumonia, and broken bone.…
Often times our clients require multidisciplinary care through: physicians, nurses, physiotherapy, occupational therapist, pharmacist, mental health worker, social worker…etc. Jeffs et al. (2017) reinforces this when he describes how collaborative practice occurs when “multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds provide comprehensive services by working with patients… to deliver the highest quality of care across settings” (p.40). Thus, collaborative practice enhances our client’s care, as we are able to efficiently access a number of resources that a client may not be aware of. It is the failure of communication, coordination and collaboration within the health care team that often leads to medical errors and negative health…
For this discussion, I read the article titled Children and Trauma: A post -Katrina and Rita Response and I watched the 60 minutes video on the Sandy Hook school shooting. Both man- made and natural disasters bring about many questions and need psychological help to process. Feelings of insecurity, powerlessness, confusion, and depression were common, as homes, workplaces, and schools were destroyed or left uninhabitable. Discuss how we might understand and/or respond to crisis and trauma from a faith informed perspective while utilizing sound counseling methods. We can respond to crisis and trauma by showing love and compassion just as Jesus did for all of us when he died on the cross.…
In hospitals the nurses are the limps, while the doctors are the eyes and brain. Physicians spend most of their day going from patient to patient, and lack the time that nurses have to bond with the patient both emotionally, and mentally. Physicians also have a constant need to detach themselves emotionally from a patient to be able to continue with their work.in a recent study conducted in an ICU unit in hospital in Canada found that the average doctor spent less than an hour a day with each of his or her patients. In addition, nurses enjoy a closer bond with their patients as compared to Physicians since they have more direct contact with them. As a result, “patients will often times identify better with nurses than physicians, usually showing their preference by the type of co-operation they offer.”…
The objective of this essay is to discuss with reference to published literature “ICU diaries are frequently promoted as being beneficial for the patients’ psychological recovery from critical illness”. Intensive care unit (ICU) is an environment where often the most fragile patients are, and where they receive treatment. During their sometimes prolonged stay in ICU, patients often experience strong physical and psychological stress, including critical life threatening illness, terror, lack of privacy, noises, pain, sedation, sleep deprivation, delirium and the unnatural ICU environment (Ullman and all, 2014). These experiences impact on a patient’s recovery from critical illness and may result in both physical and psychological disorders (Ullman…
There was a common theme in the stories of many callers at the crisis hotline center, The Listening Ear. A person gets a disease or injury and cannot afford to address it. Their condition worsens and can no longer go to work. They lose their job and fall further into economic impoverishment as their condition worsens still so they become homebound. Now due to the stress they fall into new, or exacerbate existing mental illness.…
A nursing problem that is concerning to this author is that psychiatric patients that are boarding in the emergency room do not have a therapeutic environment to starting the healing and recovery process. This phenomenon of concern is important to the writer because the writer works in an emergency room and sees this every day. Most nurses went into nursing to help people this writer does not feel like she is helping these psychiatric patients when they are boarding in the emergency room. Boarding is considered, “the holding of a patient in an ED bed while awaiting an inpatient mental health bed” (Nicks & Manthey, 2012, p. 1). This write believes that the environment that the patients is in needs to be changed if these patients are going to…
I continually advocate for the patient and family while they are in the ICU. This also carries through to carrying for a dying patient and their family as well. I strive to ensure that the patient and family wishes are carried out as they have…