Clinical death

Abstract There have been many tests created throughout the years that have been designed to measure the cognitive ability of a person. Some have been reliable and valid, while others have failed to have those characteristics. The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Test (WAIS-IV) is one of them. This test is not in its fourth edition with the first one being developed by David Wechsler in 1955. The WAIS-IV test has proven to be a reliable and valid test for measuring the cognitive ability of a…

As the use of placebos increases, so does the debate over the ethicality of switching oblivious patients’ medications with placebos. A wide variety of doctors believe the switch is completely ethical and helpful, especially when confronting the opioid epidemic, while others claim “it is unethical to deceive patients by prescribing fake treatments,” (Marchant) especially when it can negatively impact a doctor-patient relationship if the patient is unaware. When my mother’s friend a simple,…

The company is sponsoring a clinical trial that involves three sites – Mercy Hospital, University Hospital, and Community Hospital. During the clinical trial, a subject at University Hospital experiences a serious, unexpected adverse event and suffers a cardiac arrhythmia leading to death (15 points). (a) What should the clinical trial investigator at University Hospital do? The foremost duty of a clinical investigator is the medical care of the subjects in the clinical trial. In case of…

numerous studies on its reliability and validity, doubts about its purpose, and new techniques to be developed including other inkblot tests. However, whether accepted or criticized, it remained among the most intriguing and commonly used tests in clinical psychology during the 1940s and 1950s when administration was in its prime (Exner, 1974). The Rorschach test is a psychological test created by Hermann Rorschach originally as a way to identify psychological disorders and later classified as…

made however, the referral must be reflective of the individual and specific needs of client. Tap 21 defines referral as “the process of facilitating the clients use of available support systems and community resources to meet needs identified in clinical evaluation or treatment planning” (www.samhsa.gov). On a daily basis referrals are made between agencies, from social worker to social worker, and from the court system to the programs. Each participating professional has an ethical…

memory. She explained it as, “when people get older they start to lose their memory, it is not something to worry about.” Well, it is something to worry about as my Aunt Vickie died from Alzheimer’s, a disease that effects the brain. Since my Aunt’s death, my mom researched the disease and decided to get involved with the Alzheimer’s…

Baylor Personal Statement I could hear conversation coming from inside the room. Confused and eager, I positioned myself behind the door. Why was no one excited? The faint murmur of the next sentence cut straight through my heart, “Due to the lack of oxygen during your son’s birth, there is a high probability of him developing disorders during his childhood.” This couldn’t be happening to my baby brother. I had waited months to finally hold him, and now I had to wait a few more weeks, until he…

Reality Therapy as Applied to Depression Review of Reality Therapy “William Glasser, the originator of reality therapy, first began to develop this approach to counseling and psychotherapy while working in a correctional institutions and a psychiatric hospital. Glasser had been trained in the traditional methods of psychiatry. He was taught to help clients gain insight so that after transference was worked through, they could achieve a higher degree of sanity. However, his experience had shown…

Sepsis is the leading cause of death for hospitalized patients. It is estimated, that 1.6 million hospitalized patients are treated for sepsis annually. Sepsis is the leading cause of hospital mortality, and has an associated cost of 400 billion dollars per year in the United States (Lopez-Bushnell, Demaray, & Jaco, 2014, p.9). Sepsis is characterized as an overwhelming infection in the body that disrupts homeostasis by causing profound inflammation and a cascade of symptoms that leads to…

Clinical Reflection: Faith, Hope, and Love This week’s clinical rotation placed me in a situation that I found myself in, twice, within the past six months. Family faced with the dilemma of prolonging the treatment and pushing for more aggressive curative treatment of a critically ill loved one, or opting instead in providing comfort for their last remaining days. Death is inevitable, but it is something that society is not comfortable discussing. In fact, people, most often set aside the…