Clinical death

ASSISTED SUICIDE: SHOULD WE LEGALIZE? Introduction Assisted suicide and euthanasia are often confused because essentially they mean the same thing. However, assisted suicide is a physician providing a substance and informing the patient how to take their own lives. Alternatively, euthanasia is a carefully planned objective to end the life of a patient (Assisted Suicide).With that being said, what is the difference between committing suicide with oneself, and having a doctor prescribe a drug to…

advocate for PSA, and he was very influential on whether PSA should be legalized. He advocated for this legal right to choose and supported the legalization of PSA. Mr. Kevorkian was most well known as “Dr. Death” because he had assisted in about a 130 suicides. He started working in euthanasia and death during the 1980s. He had dove into this topic after seeing his mother deteriorate from cancer, and he felt she shouldn’t have gone through that horrific process. She was a major influence on…

What is death? In medical terms, death marks the cessation of vital functions.[1] However, what is its purpose? We currently perceive death as an effect of an inevitable, insurmountable cause.[2] Although the process of aging is not a fully predictable process, we readily seek answers according to previously established guidelines. We do not hesitate to accept death in the form of trauma, disease and old age, however improbable or unexpected, as we firmly hold on to the opinion that these events…

approximately 55,000 pediatric deaths occur annually, and 80% of children who die in hospitals do so in an intensive care unit and emergency department (Kongsuwan et al., 2016). Although advances in health care, thousands of children die annually from life threatening illnesses. Death can occur after a prolonged illness, such as respiratory failure, cancer, or suddenly and unexpectedly, such as after an injury or sudden infant death. Major causes of child deaths include immaturity-related…

life-threatening illnesses and death, [and] cancer patient and caregiver quality of life and disparities in end-of-life care (Weill Cornell Medical College, n.d.). In a study she conducted in 1992, Prigerson was interested in advancing the critically ill geriatric patients’…

competent healthcare professionals who are prepared to address clinical challenges1. The iSAP scenario provided the opportunity to develop a Clinical Action Plan (CAP) to identify client needs and discuss professional behaviours of clinician’s involved affecting the quality of healthcare received. An expert CAP was then released identifying the main issues to be considered. This report will compare and contrast these two reports to improve my clinical practice. Rationale The CAP I completed for…

One of the questions that makes me motivated to go to school is “Am I willing to live without some of the luxuries of life for a while”. I chose this question because I have a believe that I can live without a luxury life for a while, and I have been doing it for the past year. I think the way to get to a luxury life is to be educated. The Idea of luxury and money and being completely indecent had motivate me that a graduate school is for me. One of the questions that made me not so motivated…

Clinical assessments by psychologists can trace their roots to Sir Francis Galton, who was the first to concentrate studies on individual differences. This gradually influenced other psychologists, and the measuring of mental ability took shape. In 1896 Witmer was credited with opening the first psychological clinic, and coining the term "clinical psychology” (Cook, 2011). The general public’s notion of a psychologist is typically the clinical psychologist, yet not all psychologists are involved…

the United States. Hence, I needed to study for a highly regarded and well-paying job there. Although there are clinical psychologists in my home country, the career is undervalued because people refrain from going to therapy. Unfortunately, seeing a psychologist is equated with weakness or severe mental illness. The stigma surrounding the field did not allow me to consider clinical psychology as a viable option. My parents wanted me to either become a lawyer or a doctor because those two…

Mental health is a state of wellbeing where every individual realises their potential, the ability to cope with the stress of life and can work productively (Who, 2016). In Australia headspace is the National Youth Mental Health Foundation designed to provide early intervention providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year olds (Headspace, 2016). This has prompted Professor Anthony Jorm to write for The Conversation, Is headspace really improving young people mental health?…