Distress

blood oxygen level will decrease below 94%. Respiratory distress begins when the capillaries are not getting enough oxygen which will cause a decrease in perfusion making your blood oxygen levels drop and cell death will begin to occur as your body becomes hypoxic. There are many signs and symptoms that go along with respiratory distress that include: a chief complaint of shortness of breath, restlessness, an increased pulse rate in early distress, skin color changes, abnormal breathing,…

Lisa Kiang and Christy Buchanan from Wake Forest University decided to conduct a micro-longitudinal research using a daily diary method, empirical study, and quantitative study. In addition, they used a stratified sampling design to narrow down the tested subjects to Asian Americans and then categorizing them into separate subsections of different ethnicities and classifications of Asians. The study did not have a hypothesis because their research was mainly exploratory and instead looked at the…

Policy issues include nurse migration and the desire for hospitals to be more competitive by increasing efficiency. Both of these problems have to have many solutions but the underlying cause is the nurse shortage that causes moral distress. Another cause of moral distress is the doctor and nurse relationship which cannot be solved by the nursing shortage. The only way to fix this issue is by fixing the relationship between the two. This essay will discuss these three issues above, along with…

Furthermore, from Stone, Hankin, Gibb and Abela (2011) study shown that baselines level of co-rumination can predicted the time of depression onset; a higher level of co-rumination will correlate with a longer, more serious episode, which will have preserved after rumination and depressive symptoms were covaried. Therefore, co-rumination is an important risk factor that can predict depressive symptoms. From Byrd-Craven, Granger and Auer (2011) work found that co-rumination can predict the…

medical model is psychiatric drugs, which are used for all forms of mental disorder. Drugs have been the main response to those with mental distress since the 1950’s, due to the pharmacological revolution, although, Baldessarini (1999) says there is an evidence base to support their appropriate use. There is a lot of controversy around drug use for mental distress as some experts say it can make patients feel worse and can lead people to feel reliant on them. The figures of anti-depressant use…

psychological treatment after abortion. The questionnaire/survey was instructed to college woman who preferred psychological treatment post-abortion. A total of forty-five students voiced opinions on their personal desires of treatment to decrease distress. Curley and Johnston were able to view the number of requests from young women agreeing to seek treatment. All participants were drafted from the university who signed up after viewing advertisements and other promoted proposals. For four…

Interestingly, the degree of psychological distress in participants that reported insecurities or frustrations varied and was determined by three factors: 1) whether participants had any understanding of racism and racial discrimination, 2) whether their racial experiences were direct or vicarious, and 3) whether their direct or vicarious experiences were brought about by a teacher or their peers. All participants reported having received racism directly or vicariously, but participants who…

experience significant pain, distress, suffering, and/or death. Nearly all of the estimated 2000 new chemicals and thousands of chemical products introduced each year must undergo acute safety tests to determine whether the substance is toxic or lethal and whether it causes allergic skin reactions or damage to eyes or skin. Much of this acute testing is still conducted using mice, rats, guinea pigs, and rabbits, with many animals experiencing death, acute illness, pain, and distress from toxic…

Bitter and Bitten is a lawsuit about Lofton Jackson vs. Northwestern University Hospital. Mr. Jackson is a university campus police officer who was called from his post, adjacent to the hospital, to help subdue a patient out of control. He has assisted the ER in the past with these types of patients. Before Mr. Jackson arrived, the patient had informed the ER staff that he has AIDS. It is the hospital policy to inform any staff member if a patient is infected with AIDS and they have done so in…

obligations of debt holders, it experiences financial distress. If the firm continues to fail in making payments to the debt holders, it…