Chronic illness

The focus of this assignment is to look at and analyse the mental health and illness aspects of people in our community. Using a case study of a mental health presentation, explore the research and critical thinking related to the assessment and pre-hospital management of mental health patients. Exploring the pathophysiology, signs and symptoms of several mental health illness and critically evaluate the pre-hospital assessment and management and compare this to best paramedic practice.…

Opportunities for Improvement for PCS Using Lean Management and Six Sigma Principles: Throughout the year’s healthcare organizations have increasingly used the Lean Six Sigma principles to improve operating efficiency in their organization to better deliver care to the patients (Poksinska, Fialkowska-Filipek & Engström, 2017). The Lean Six Sigma was originally used in manufacturing businesses as a strategy for improvement by increasing performance that inheres to better customer satisfaction…

One scene from the documentary, “Doctor’s Diaries,” that demonstrates the role of medical schools and hospitals in the socialization of physicians was one of the first scenes where Jay Bonnar got to see a patient for the first time. In the beginning of this documentary, Jay Bonnar is introduced as a psychiatrist. When the documentary gets to the part where he is sitting down with the female African American patient, Jay was extremely hesitant since that was the first patient he got to see. He…

Heading in to the second case study, is Henry, who is now caring for his aging mother who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s diseases. He is dealing with the struggles of providing care, while keeping his mom safe, and also handling his own emotions. Henry is currently considering placing his mom in a day program; however, he is feeling apprehensive about it. Alzheimer’s is a slow progressing disease that has no cure that progressively decreases ones impairment. Cognitive changes that…

Ethical dilemmas commonly faced in the nursing profession arises when nurses are at crossroads with moral ideologies and competing demands of miscellaneous parties—that is, the client’s desires, the physician’s orders, the family’s demands, bureaucracy of the hospital, the law, and the nurse’s physical and emotional limitations (Chambliss, 1996, p. 93). One common ethical issue encountered in clinical settings is the interjection of advance directives to the nurse’s innate duty to care.…

I can still remember those words, ‘When you are a clinician, you are saving a life, but when you are a public health personnel, you are saving thousands of life at a time’, delivered by my professor at the orientation class of undergraduate community medicine course. That introductory speech was so motivating that I thought for a while, should I be in the ‘thousands life saver’ group? But that speech alone was not sufficient to grow my interest in public health. Day by day I was feeling the…

A Day in the Life of a Traveling Health Care Worker, Cameroon Reflection 2 1. Who is the narrator of the case study and why is she holding the meeting? The name of the narrator is Christy Ngam and she is a traveling health care worker employed by the Cameroonian government to teach people about family planning. She holding the meeting because, it is used by travel Cameroonian government health care worker, and her job is to provide education on family planning for those living in remote and…

Clinical Reflection #1 Genita Balkissoon Western Connecticut State University Describe the clinical situation, i.e. VNA, school rotation, homeless shelter, hospice). Provide clear examples of clinical activities. Include your actions, thoughts and feeling both positive and negative. Discuss any circumstances that made you feel uncomfortable or triggered emotions. The Visting Nursing association was only something I had heard about from the case managers at the hospital I work in but…

If someone had the chance to save one person or five, which would they choose? Dependent on who that person is, what their assets are, and the nature of the person, most people would choose to save the larger majority people. In September, of 1974, Garrett Hardin published in the magazine Psychology Today, “The Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping The Poor.” In this essay, he used a metaphor of a lifeboat to compare first and third world countries and their duty to help other countries. For…

It is clear that the utmost importance in any medical context is the relationship between the healthcare practitioner and the patient. The duty of a physician is to adhere to certain principles of medical ethics namely the principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. By examining the case study involving Dr. Nancy Morrison, one can observe that these principles are often ambiguous when referring to the issue of whether she committed voluntary active euthanasia or…