Comorbidity

believe that bath care and perineal care is just as important as administering medications. “Patients in ICU are at greater risk of infection due to the presence of significant comorbidities, exposure to antibiotics and breaks in skin integrity due to invasive devices (Soussi & Asfour, 2015)”. This patient did have comorbidities and invasive devices which increase her risk of developing hospital-acquired infections, increasing her need for bath care and perineal care. I would have chosen to…

The classification of the current subtypes of ADHD were discussed and analyzed in each of the above articles. The subtypes discussed were ADHD – Predominantly Hyperactivity-Impulsivity, ADHD – Predominately Inattentive and ADHD – Combined. The argument was made to make ADHD – Inattentive, its own distinct disorder and unrelated to ADHD. The articles discuss at length, distinctions between ADHD – Predominately Inattentive and ADHD - Combined. These distinctions were as follows: essential…

own care, feel supported in understanding their illness, while being empowered in decision making to improve their health. Since my nursing career experience includes all ages starting with the newborn babies to elderly population with multiple comorbidities, I would like to be able to provide accessible collaborative, family centered care to the patients across the age…

In the critical meta analysis Borkovec et al. (2002) perform, it is clearly indicated that in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), that is an empirically backed method of treatment for GAD, often has many faults within the treatment style. Researchers make evident that often the control group comparison is comprised of those on a waiting list for treatment, that the effect size may not be significant enough, and also that individuals ' improvement still does not lie within the range on the…

health promotion activities, taking leadership of their own health at individual level or in collaboration with family and health professionals. However, self-management can be affected by demographic factors such as culture and clinical factors comorbidity or linguistic aspect of health professionals (Schulman-Green et al.…

The term “sadism” was originally coined by Kraft-Ebing (1886) after Marquis de Sade, who wrote novels in which he described scenes of torture and killing in a sexual context (Hucker, 1997). Krafft-Ebing (1886) defined sadism as follows: Sadism is the experience of sexually pleasurable sensations, including orgasm, produced by acts of cruelty…It may also consist of an innate desire to humiliate, hurt, wound or even destroy others in order thereby to create sexual pleasure in one’s self…

determine whether the number of deaths exceeds the expected rate 3. The shortcomings of existing methods may be due to the failure to adjust routine data adequately and reliably for differences in case mix 4. Existing methods adjust for age, sex, and comorbidities but do not adjust for severity of illness, as indicated by physiological measures or routine blood tests 5,6. This probably reflects…

Life is not without problems and as such, humanity share’s stories of struggles and for many these struggles are merely a part of the cycle of this life. Yet there are those that cannot cope with these struggles in terms of a positive solution and there for seek the guidance of a therapist to provide an unbiased view of the whole picture and train the client to get back on track, managing life once again. Therapists are trained in the field of mental health and provide experience in identifying…

A similar study examining the comorbidity of MD, conducted by Eli Somer, Nirit Soffer-Dudek, and Colin A. Ross (2017) found that there were extremely high rates of comorbidity for MD and that individuals who exhibited MD had many complex psychiatric conditions. Of their sample size of 39 participants, 74% of participants met the criteria for three or more…

Introduction The case study that will be discussed in this paper refers to Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis. In the case study Toni Abbott was identified as a consumer. At that time she was 18 year old. She lives at home with her mother and step-father. Toni has just completed her Year 12 schooling. She has been enrolled in her first semester as a student at the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT), where she will complete a Certificate III in Childcare. In the case study, Toni…