Chronic illness

Risk Assessment in Mental Health Mental health services can manage risk and safety more effectively by involving service users in planning for safety. However, conventional clinical techniques of risk assessment are obstacles to creating normal and risk-free physical life for admitted and recovering mental health patients (Ratnayake, 2010). It is recommended that mental service givers and patients should work jointly to develop and implement effective risk management plans for mentally ill…

One aspect that many people read travel narratives for is the danger, the risk to the protagonist 's life as they travel through unknown lands. In a travel narrative, especially one written in an early part of human history, the chance of injury or illness is all too great. But what interests an audience is not just the thrill of how close the protagonist comes to death, but how the protagonist handles their suffering. This essay will compare Ibn Ibn Battuta and Joinville in how they handle the…

in Hurst, Read, & Wallis, 2012). It is characterized by the distorted perception of abnormally low body weight leading to alarming health complications; due to the extreme measures of maintaining an absurdly thin body. This paper explores how the illness alters the social, psychological, behavioural, and physiological health of adolescences focusing more with the teenage girl’s population. It also discusses the roles of nurses in addressing, managing, and preventing anorexia nervosa by applying…

raised by depression itself is whether depression is a pain-stricken illness or not. Is depression capable of confiscating day-to-day functioning? People who have not suffered directly from depression tend to feel as if depression is controllable, as if a person can just get rid of depression. I have chosen two pictures that accurately represent the way in which society treats a depressed individual. In the first image, It’s an Illness, illustrated by the Depression Comix crew, we will see a…

Patient Engagement in Healthcare Introduction The implementation of the Co-Design approach in Patient Engagement within the healthcare setting has been attributed to the improvements in many aspects of the patients’ experiences across various levels of the healthcare system. However, despite its potential to improve the patients’ experience of healthcare, the recent introduction of the approach still requires further studies in order to understand, develop and implement it to its full potential…

The reality of the health care industry is that it works and operates as a business. With a strategic marketing strategy coupled with high patient care satisfaction, these businesses will prosper if certain internal are met. Operating a large entity such as a health care organization also demands innovative and up to date care, recruiting and retaining high quality staff and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who has a vision for success. In the following discussion, three business principles will…

(Mooney et. al, 2015, p. 39). This has the potential to establish a system where profits and greed override patient care. In the symbolic interactionist perspective, medicalization may cause one illness to be automatically expected to be the same of all people with the illness because the behavior or illness has been labeled (Mooney et al, 2015, p. 40). This may cause physicians to overlook potential solutions to medical or mental health illnesses due to stereotyping behaviors. It is important…

Over the past decade, various industries have become more and more computerized. This includes the health care industry with Electronic Health Records (EHR). EHR’s make health care delivery more functional than ever. Menachemi and Collum (2011), tell us that EHR’s include patient demographics, progress notes, current problems, medications, and vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory and radiology data. Over a lifetime, a patient’s data accumulates in a variety of…

of the North West Province in Cameroon, I witnessed at a very young age the devastating effects of the lack of adequate health care. The situation was further complicated by the illness of my grandmother who is the inspiration behind my desire to pursue a degree in pharmacy. Given our very close relationship, her illness gravely affected me. Initially, I guessed it was just old age, and she would get better, but the symptoms worsened overtime. Matters reached a peak one day when we were…

What if we lived in a world with no sick people? This is an ideal world that most people would like to be in. The sad truth is that this isn’t the case, my family saw this first hard on October 12th, 1993 when my brother passed away at the age of five. Even though I had yet to enter the world, I grew up seeing the emotional effect it had on my family. Till this day every year we light a candle once a year. My desire to prevent other families from having an identical experience was the Catalyst…