Illness

Do you have an elderly loved one or relative in the house that requires assistance and help? Don't have the time to provide personal care and protection? Then you should consider availing 24 hour home health care services for the elderly patient. Supportive in-home health care services not only provide maximum care and protection for elders but it also guarantees peace of mind for the caregivers. Unlike full time nursing homes, 24 hour home care services give personalized care and protection to…

The right to die on when diagnosed with a terminal illness. The gift of life is the most valuable gift we receive, with that the responsibility to be able to make your own choice between ending your own life after diagnosis with a terminal illness or suffering an indescribable death. I believe that The Right To Die is ethical because, Physician assisted suicide is a compassionate response to unbearable suffering that results from terminal illness. I understand this is a very conversional topic…

Making of the English Patient demonstrate how patients shaped early modern medicine. These sources unveil the pitfalls of only looking at a patient-focused history and how suffering was depicted as social and cultural occurrences. During this time, illness was viewed as an object that could be manipulated through various humoral-based treatments and mainly derived from the patient’s perspective. In Sir John Mordaunt’s letter…

(Bunting-Perry, & Vernon, 2007). Age is natural and its identified with numerous diseases malignancy, osteoarthritis, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. A biological theory highlights the requirement for health promotion intervention to anticipate illness conditions and minimize the negative impacts of maturing (Hunter, 2012). As a community nurse, checking his medication to make confirm that the patient taking his medication regularly or followed correctly follows the medical advice…

injuries and safety issues being perpetrated against individuals with mental illnesses by police officers. Nurses are trained on how to handle individuals with a mental illness, unlike police officers, whose lack of understanding of mental illnesses is a primary aggression, which can cause them to believe that everyone with a mental illness is a threat (Canada, Angell, Watson, 2011). “People with mental illnesses may not respond well to traditional policing tactics ... such as verbal commands,…

Human civilization has alway viewed depression as a morbid, dreadful illness that harbored by the meek and powerless; it’s stigmatized and disregarded as a case of the blues. This could be the cause of those with depression isolating themselves, and their unwillingness to receive proper treatment. Personally, I have suffered…

of gardens in or around hospitals, and to provoke action for more hospitals to provide patients with this kind of scenery. While the gardens do not necessarily heal the patients, she claims it has positive effects on many people suffering from an illness. The targeted audience in this article would be hospital patients or anyone interested in the works of nature. Raver uses some logos in the beginning of the article by stating facts about the garden’s effects on patients.…

be fine and breathing and in the next they are slowly leaving this world. The illness causes the patient to not be able to breathe at times and the body goes into shock. The awful disease can cause the patient to start bleeding from the mouth and when it comes out there is no way to help them before the ambulance makes there way there. There is also not enough to get them to a hospital before they are gone. The illness causes the patient to have a weak immune system. They get to the point where…

are spending over £40,000 per prisoner and the government still can 't see the distinctly noticeable factor that we could be saving millions if we stop the cycle of living with mental illness. There is an underlying issue that people who can cope with their mental illness will have crime related habits. Mental illness needs to be diagnosed and treated at a young age when they are developed to improve quality of life for us all. why is it not clear to see that CAMHS is the first step to a…

Summary of Dorthea Orem’s Nursing Theory Dorthea Orem’s nursing theory is based on the philosophy that people have a desire to be independent and care for themselves. People function at the highest level and recover expediently and holistically from health care deficits when they are enabled to perform self-care at the highest level possible. The theory postulates that people benefit from nursing care when they suffer health conditions that limit their ability to provide self-care (Blais& Hayes,…