Comorbidity

The American Nurses Association (ANA) defines nursing as “the protection, promo-tion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of heal-ing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advoca-cy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities , and populations” (American Nurses Association, 2016). But, what does it mean to be a professional nurse? Being a professional means “adhering to the…

that’s the way the movie wants you to think. That would be a great happy-ending but unfortunately that is not real life. Borderline personality disorder carries a mortality rate of about 10% and bipolar disorders have another psychiatric disorder comorbidity about 50% of the time (Halter and Varcarolis, 2014). These can be serious illnesses and I don’t think the movie goes into enough details about each…

Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome The goal of this paper is to summarize and synthesize five research articles that are relevant to my PICOT question. My PICOT question is: In patients that are withdrawing from alcohol, what is the effect of benzodiazepines, compared to other drugs in the treatment for Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome (AWS)? The synthesis will include inconsistencies and contradictions in the literature that was reviewed. Lastly, I will provide preliminary conclusions on…

Joyce Davidson is a high school English teacher. It was her second year and in this case, she is found teaching remedial English for the tenth grade.Within her classroom, there are thirteen students who vary in areas of abilities but all have relatively low reading scores with an average of 4.5. Among them, there are more boys than girls numbering eleven to two with the majority of the boys being either African American or Hispanic. Overall the classroom has a vibrant social atmosphere of mostly…

TERMINOLOGY CLINICAL CLARIFICATION • Systemic illness due to microbial infection that can lead to acute organ dysfunction or failure and associated with host immune response to infection CLASSIFICATION • There is a disease continuum with increasing severity if not treated or not responsive to treatment o Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) - Documented or suspected infection with systemic manifestations of infection - Clinical response to a nonspecific insult of either infectious or…

Obesity is an epidemic, not just in the United States, but in multiple other countries across the world. Overweight and obesity are defined as excessive fat gain that negatively impacts health. Being overweight or obese is caused by a metabolic imbalance associated with consuming more calories than the body expends therefore causing weight gain. The most commonly used tool to determine a person’s weight category is by using their body mass index. Body mass index is calculated by taking the…

The issue is further confused by the comorbidity of other mental illnesses with DID. Psychiatrists Lauer, Keen, and black have made the argument that DID is a variation of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) as the two share many symptoms — a study by Braun and Horevitz found that 70% of patients…

Introduction: Emotions aroused regarding a situation, frequently depend on how this situation is appraised or interpreted (Joormann, Yoon & Siemer, 2010). Interpretations are often habitual and repetitive, and as a result they are classified as biases (Hirsh et al., 2016). Negative Interpretation Bias (NIB) is a transdiagnostic feature describing the habit of interpreting ambiguous situations as negative or threatening (Garland & Howard, 2013). These biases have been proposed to be automatic,…

Introduction Liver transplantation (LT) is a well-established curative therapy for irreversible chronic end-stage liver disease or acute liver failure (1-3). Since the introduction of the liver transplant procedure, it has been a standard approach to give postoperative ventilation in children and exact timing of extubation is usually debatable but it has been noted that early or even immediate extubation may be a feasible approach nowadays (4-6). It is important to assess timing of extubation…

acuity has increased due to patients with multiple comorbidities, the nurse-to-patient ratio has remained unchanged. As the demands on the nurse continue to grow, feelings of frustration, stress, and dissatisfaction are experienced. Being forced to choose the tasks that are a priority and excluding others due to time constraints is not in the best interest of the patient and a contradiction to the Nursing Code of Ethics and nurses are all too often struggling to do what is morally right.…