Caregiving and dementia

Caregiving is not a simple task and the work involved is boring. Robots are given to make work easier, they help in lifting and moving elderly people. They help to of independence among the elderly people. Also, robots preserve the dignity of the elderly people…

This clinical rotation was interesting to find out about the population health and dynamics of Danbury and the surrounding cities. During the past five weeks, I have encountered many different diseases, people, environments, and professions in nursing that gave me a broader idea of what community nursing truly is. I got to experience four weeks first hand with two different visiting nurses in the Fairfield and Danbury area and one week with the Health Department going on health inspections at…

Death and dying are stigmatized in today’s culture. As a society we have disconnected ourselves from death and grieving, to the point where it is becoming a problem. As a result of technological advances we have come to believe that death is not natural, it is something that can be cheated and has become a trivial part of life we do not think about. But the truth is that everyone eventually dies, and by not thinking about it when we are young we are not setting ourselves up for the best possible…

I took the Jung Typology Test as an individual study to better understand my personality in relation to observable behaviors found within life, more specifically the work place. I discovered ESFJ is my four letter code and SJ is my temperament. This test narrowed down my four letter code from sixteen possible personality types according to the works of Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs Myers, and then from that discovery my temperament was identified. This study went as far as to assign me my suited…

In a single year 83.2% of adults and 97.6% of children have had some kind of contact with medical professionals due to some form of physical ailment (“Ambulatory Care Use…”). This statistic clearly displays that the average American has a sense of trust and devotion towards the medical system and the professionals who work there to help the community. However, are all those in the medical field truly qualified and deserving of this kind of trust? Do they really have the skills to truly take care…

In a world where terminal illness is more of a reality than being able to afford a decent-sized house in a “good” neighborhood, it can bring peace to a patient when they have the option to determine how they go out. “Nearly half of all Americans die in a hospital” according to Centers for Disease Control (2005) [PDF]. Most patients in these situations are in excruciating pain for the duration of their treatments only to face death in a hospital bed used by many, rather than in the comfort of…

The “Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education (HOPE) for Alzheimer’s Act” Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive degeneration of cognitive function that affects an individual’s ability to recall, process information, and eventual disorientation, confusion, and behavior changes. It is a insidious disease because it starts slowly and depending on the type of Alzheimer’s can vary in it transitions through it stages. It the worst cases as the disease progresses, the individual loses the ability…