Dermatology

Hildegard of Bingen was a great mystic who was able to understand the natural world through her visions. She lived during the 11th and 12th centuries, 1089 to 1179, and was a significant figure during this medieval period because she was able to gain recognition during a male oriented time frame of the Catholic Church (Singer 57). During her childhood she spent the majority of her time among the Benedictines, and was educated in the convent of Disibodenberg (Singer 57). Therefore, Hildegard was…

I recall memories of my mother and I spending time together when I was younger. We talked about numerous things that led to discovering what type of person my mother is and who she wanted to be. Talking with her helped me learn who I wanted to be. I wanted to be just like her. The moment my mother told me she wanted to become a nurse, I decided that is who I wanted to become. As I got older my opinions and dreams became my own, but my future career never changed. Despite still having a lot to…

Final Journal Assignment During the shadowing internship, there were plenty of opportunities to witness interesting cases that helped me to understand the field of dermatology. The first case I saw while shadowing was of a patient who presented with Proximal subungual onychomycosis under her toenails. Patient 1 Patient History/Present Illness: This patient, a middle aged women, presented with persistent, fungus under her toes. She…

Treatment Treating patients with excoriation starts with a series of evaluations (Arnold et al., 2001). The evaluations are of two types: physical and psychological (Grant et al., 2016). First, the clinician will have the patient evaluated for any underlying skin-related medical problems like lesions, scabies, etc. Then the patient is evaluated and treated for psychological conditions. When knowing about certain comorbid disorders, clinicians can better treat their patients. Some regimens may…

An influence that a peer group, observers or individual exerts that encourages others to change their attitudes, values, or behaviors to conform to group norms is considered peer pressure (google). Throughout time there have been so many different developments of peer pressure. Some of these developments may contain the pressure to do corrupt or moral things. Many diverse types of people and diverse age groups all have been through the means of peer pressure. Everyone has that instant where…

The basic model of task shifting in the healthcare sector is shown in figure 2. The healthcare professionals of higher cadre, who are less in number in an organization and expected to donate some of their patient care responsibilities to the available parallel professionals of the same cadre or lower cadre and hence are called Task shift donors. The professionals in the same field but of lower cadre or of belonging to the related area in the same field are called Task shift acceptors. To make…

There are situations that exist throughout every facet of life where ethics can be applied. Although ethical decisions must be made all throughout the life; however, some of the most complex ethical decisions are associated with the medical field and involve the patients and treatment. Ethical theories address these issues and provide you with justifiable principles that can be utilized to assist in guiding a person in making these decisions1.These theories give justification of a person’s…

Health problem/diagnosis Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, recurrent, suppurative, cutaneous disease, manifested by abscesses, fistulating sinus tracts and scarring. Synonyms are apocrinitis, acne inversa and pyoderma fistulans significa. The disease is expressed by a variety of clinical features, and many sites may be involved. It affects apocrine gland-bearing skin; the axillae are most often involved, followed by the anogenital region. Uncommon sites include the areola of the breast…

money so that she can provide for her siblings. With the few monies earned, she was able to help her mother out and take care of her siblings. She managed to graduate high school but not with high grades and received a job as a receptionist at a dermatology clinic. Both women are about the same age but they both come from different financial backgrounds. Due to this both of their career paths ended up…

To begin, a little history lesson on the development of this magical drug may be helpful. As early as 1895, the bacteria Clostridium Botulinum, was identified. In the 1920’s Botulinum Toxin Type A was isolated in a purified form. In 1946, the purified Botulinum Toxin Type A was transformed into a crystalline form so that further research of the molecule could be studied. In the 1950’s it was discovered that when the Botulinum Toxin Type A was injected into a hyperactive muscle it blocked the…