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Mental Health in communities and barriers that impact care Monique Messam Nova Southeastern University History of Mental Health Mental illness is a serious condition that affects a person behavior, mood, physical health and employment. Negative stigma towards people with mental illness were believed to be cursed or possessed cause difficulty finding mental health professional to treat mental disorders. In the past treatment for mental ill patients were institutional…

Breastfeeding for First Time Mothers Torrie Deckert Denver School of Nursing Breastfeeding for First Time Mothers H.D. is a 30-year-old G1P1 patient here today to deliver her little girl by a vaginal delivery. She has a strong support system with her today: her husband, mother and father in law, and both of her parents. H.D. has had problems with infertility in her past; because of this she is worried about breastfeeding and milk production. H.D. is still planning on breastfeeding her baby.…

Girl, Interrupted is about an eighteen year old named Susanna Kaysen. She committed herself into a metal institute after she decided to take a bottle of aspirin and wash it down with a bottle of Vodka. During her 18 month stay in the mental institution she encounters Georgina, Lisa, Polly, and Daisy. The four friends each have their own psychological problems. Lisa the wildest of the group, tries to hold her back through negativity, but in the end Susanna overcomes her issues and is released.…

Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects at least 27 million people in the world, and affects even more people in underdeveloped countries. As a psychotic disorder, its symptoms include a loss of reality, hallucinations, delusions, and thought disruptions. This disease has no cure, and persons can be diagnosed with schizophrenia as early as 16 years old. There are many traditional treatments for schizophrenia that help relieve the patients’ symptoms, such as the use of psychoactive drugs.…

The Quiet Room, emphasizes on the main character Lori Schiller’s life and her dealing with the disease Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder that has affected people throughout history. About 1 in 100 people may develop schizophrenia (Schizophrenia: What Parents Need to Know. (2012). This disease can be disabling over time and start at a young age. There is no exact cause to this certain disease but it does seem to connect to chemical imbalances in the…

Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness with variable expression and uncertain etiology. It is a mental disorder characterized by severe breakdowns in thought patterns, emotions, and perceptions. Only 1% of the population is diagnosed with this illness and it’s a condition difficult to treat and understand most of the type. Anyone would see a schizophrenic person and immediately perceive them as weird and not be able to carry out a normal conversation with them. A person will be at higher…

differences in Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) in a dose-dependent manner [1]. This adverse effect is induced cardiac arrhythmia known as torsade de pointes (TdP) (delay of cardiac repolarization), are associated with the following drugs such as; chlorpromazine, mesoridazine, pimozide and thioridazone, which increase the risk of QT prolongation. It also has been shown with medications that block cardiac voltage-gated potassium channels, protracting repolarization and the QT interval [22]. The QT…

Safety Process: Six Rights and Three Checks The administration of medication is an integral component of the healthcare provision in the modern world (Koehler & Schwinghammer, 2008). It is necessary for nurses to understand the fundamental ideals that seek to safeguard patient safety and ultimately ensure safe outcomes in relation to the administration of drugs (Koehler & Schwinghammer, 2008). The observance of the Six Rights and Three Checks principles are an example of measures that are…

Background Forms of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide have been a very controversial and widely-debated over topic for years. This occurrence, more sensitively called “aid in dying”, is when a doctor or trained medical professional administers a form of lethal medication which ends the recipient’s life. In the majority of cases, it is voluntary; the recipient has a terminal illness or is in such an extreme state of physical or, in some cases, mental sickness that they want to shorten…

Not only atypical but also typical antipsychotic causes drug induced parkinsonism. Typical antipsychotics include chlorpromazine, promazine, fluphenazine, pimozide gives drug induced parkinsonism. Typical antipsychotics show their effect on the dopamine receptors that are widely distributed in the stratum of the brain. For this reason, all the patients who are taking drugs…