My first physiological NANDA diagnosis is activity intolerance related to immobility and a sedentary lifestyle as evidence by inability to perform daily activities due to pain from H.M’s osteoarthritis (Ackley & Ladwig, 2014). My second physiological NANDA diagnosis is risk for infection related to an improper use of an invasive catheter placement of peritoneal dialysis as evidenced by inability to describe proper sterile technique and management for peritoneal dialysis. (Ackley & Ladwig, 2014). My psychosocial NANDA diagnosis is social isolation related to inability to engage in satisfying personal relationships due to peritoneal dialysis 4 times a day as evidenced by H.M. stating that she feels socially isolated from her friends and has difficulty…
Cushing’s Disease Description Cushing’s Disease is an adrenal gland disease in which there is an excess of the steroid hormone, cortisol, within the body. With Cushing’s Disease the body releases too, much of the adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). This disease is rare as it effects 10 to 15 people per million each year.…
Exposition There were butterflies in my stomach and I could feel beads of sweat run down my face. A policeman unlocked my handcuffs and pushed me into the dark cell. My clothes were mucky and weighed down with sweat. The dirty cell had a foul stench of garbage and rotten sewage which made it impossible to withstand. My family were supporters of women's rights ever since I was a little girl .…
Considering Mrs. Spinner’s symptoms, and the diagnostic criteria provided in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders-5 (DSM-S), she meets criteria for depersonalization/derealization disorder. Depersonalization/derealization disorder is characterized by the presence of persistent or recurrent experiences of depersonalization, derealization, or both (Criterion A). Individuals experiencing depersonalization may have feelings of unreality, detachment, or as if they were being an outside observer of their own thoughts, feelings, sensations, body, or actions (p. ). Similarly, symptoms of derealization may include feelings of unreality or detachment; however, this feelings should be experienced with respect to the individual’s direct surroundings, where objects can be experienced as unreal, dreamlike, foggy, lifeless, or visual distorted (p. ). In the case of Mrs. Spinner, she clearly presents both depersonalization and derealization symptoms.…
Death is all around us in todays world. Young people or older people can experience this at any point in his or her life. Some are expected some are unexpected. Whether it was expected or not it is not an easy pill to swallow. Many things can cause death.…
There's even a version to it where it really feels as though somebody is squeezing against you, or prowling just crawls above you. Thoroughly scary and a serious approach to begin the day. While some stated that it's the brain playing games on you, others partner it with an evil ownership which has incidentally assumed control over your body. Once in a while an uproarious accident or blast is heard just before your body gets to be paralyzed,…
in the premature burial, the unnamed narrator talks about such things as "attacks of the singular disorder, which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy" (a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance). This leads to his fear of being buried alive. He emphasizes his fear by mentioned several people who have been buried alive. In the first case, the tragic accident was only discovered at a later time, when the victim's crypt was reopened. In others, victims were revived and able to draw attention to themselves in time to be freed from their…
Then sometime after, I passed out Grand Central Station, due to drug overdose, and awoke in the ambulance. I tried to regain consciousness, but only my eyes would work. I couldn’t speak or hear. I was dying. I could feel every sensation of life seep from my body and soul.…
Evermore What are the first thoughts that come to your mind when you think of a near death experience? Imagine being in the car with your family and the wagging tail of your dog who is happily sticking his head out the window, everything is perfect, nothing could be better, but then CRASH! Everything shatters, all you can remember is seeing your family dead on the ground, a warm bright light, the paramedics asking your name, and everything else is blank. You wake up in a hospital bed with no memory of your old life but you know it will never be the same once you realize you have the powers to see people’s auras and hear their thoughts.…
Death can occur unexpectedly and expectedly. The death that occurs unexpectedly is one of the most traumatic experiences and the worst that a person can deal with (Keyes, Pratt, Galea, McLaughlin, Koenen, & Shear, 2014). It can cause a number of health and mental problems. It can cause mental disorders of major depressive episodes, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, manic episodes, phobias, alcohol disorders, and generalized anxiety disorder (Keyes et al., 2014). Physiologically can bring cortisol responses, altered sleep, immune imbalance, inflammatory cell mobilization, and hemodynamic changes (Buckley, Sunari, Marshall, Bartrop, McKinley, & Tofler, 2012).…
In the beginning the episodes are spontaneous and quite frequent, as time goes by they become less frequent and occur when something recalls the lost person in mind. The trigger which can provoke a pang of grief can be a picture, a cloth, a common experience, his preferred dish, a common friend…
In the few moments before you die, your body will release a drug that is called DMT. Dimethyltryptamine (DM) is a psychedelic entheogen that lets your consciousness come across some of the most unbelievable experiences, visions, thoughts, and dimensions imaginable. DMT is what makes you dream. It’s almost like every night you are on a psychedelic trip. Although illegal, this drug is in plants and every living animal.…
EDV causes depend on many factors such as 24-hour accessibility, high stress environment and lack of adequately trained, armed, or visible security guards. (Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, Compton, & Michigan, 2005, Ayranci, Yenilmez, Balci, &Kaptanoglu, 2006; Gacki-Smith, Juarez, &Boyett, 2009;) The majority of perpetrators of EDV are patients, their family members and visitors. (Lipscomb, Silverstein, Slavin, Coccy, & Jenkins, 2003Ayranci et al., 2004;)…
Interviewer: What is your view on epilepsy. Jimmy: I just think they are these things that happen to me every once in awhile where I pass out for 1 second, sometimes there are big epilepsies too. Francis: They are these things that scare me a lot when they happen to Jimmy where he blacks out for a second and he has had 2 big ones I believe Interviewer: That day in on bridge what was going through your mind.…
These are well known examples of death. Although, it does make one think of another concept that could be similar to it and that is a coma. Being in a coma can be defined as, “a prolonged state of unconsciousness. During a coma, a person is unresponsive to his or her environment. The person is alive and looks like he or she is sleeping.…