Illness

Medication compliance is an issue that many patients with a mental illness face; whether it be due to lack of knowledge or the side effects they produce. Medication compliance is a major factor in the treatment of mental illnesses and when patients do not adhere to this regimen, it causes a downward spiral and relapse of behavior. It is important as a nurse to understand the reasons for non-adherence to better care for each individual patient. By understanding the rationale behind patients not…

of 460 BC to 377 BC. Hippocrates was born in a town from Greece called Larissa (Hippocrates Biography). Hippocrates was a Greek philosopher and physician who have been called ‘the father of medicine’. He and his followers dismissed the idea that illness was simply caused or cured by superstitions, spirits or gods. Instead, he argued for a rational approach to medical treatment based on close observation of the individual patient. However, so little is known about the man himself that some…

The psychiatric population is a special populations group that the health care community has failed from the beginning of medicine. Mental illness covers a spectrum from depression to schizophrenia. The mental health community is often associated with maladaptive behaviors that have created a negative stigma in health care. This negative stigma has promoted less than stellar care from health care providers. The lack of resources in the community and area hospitals continues to…

These centers provide patients both long term and short term nursing care. Some centers focus on respiratory illness rehabilitation. Other nursing centers provide orthopedic rehabilitation, while others are for people that can no longer care for themselves due to age or loss of physical abilities. The community benefits from this because families are able to receive…

Employing effective communication strategies between healthcare practitioners and between patients is essential to ensure high quality patient outcomes. As healthcare becomes more complex, the focus for organizations will be on processes that facilitate collaboration and improve patient outcomes (Rosenstein, Dinklin, & Munro, 2014). This paper will review two strategies to improve communication: the use of the Situation-Background-Assessment- Recommendation tool, or SBAR for interprofessional…

were equally important alongside nursing practice guidelines, social development, focused care, education, and empowerment for nurses caring for human life. “While it became perceived as a necessity in how nurses assist patients on the continuum of illness to wellness, it became an interwoven theme and even synonymous with nursing itself” (Adams, 2016,…

Holistic Care for Islamic Patients According to nursing handbooks the goal of nursing is to serve people in health and illness. To achieve these goals nurses must be aware of the patient’s cultural practices and values. The American Holistic Nurses Association states, “Caring is important for the human growth, development and survival and it has helped human beings through cultural evolution.” Therefore, in order to deliver care holistically, an understanding of the patient’s culture and…

mental illness and hopefully be able to get a better understanding of what it is and how it affects people’s life which will aid me at the time of caring for patients. I look forward to gain a better understanding of how metal illness affect the life of so many people and hopefully learn how to aid and assist patients diagnosed and not diagnose of suffering from mental illness. I perceive it like opening a door to a new room so I can learn from it and hopefully get a hand of how mental illness…

conduit by providing acceptance and focused attention to the patient to assist them with their healing process. By improving one’s overall health, including intellectual, emotional, and social wellness, the patient will heal physically (the disease or illness will regress) and holistically. The “person” is healed because they are recognized as a unique individual instead of an object of science, which provides more autonomy. Lastly, the environment is healed because all negative factors are…

However, there is the need for greater attention to specific individuals with HIV/AIDS, but who lack the resources and capability to access the government provisions. Individuals suffering from chronic illness are automatically ruled out of job contentions since it is impossible to work (Kuppers, 2012). Consequently, such individuals find themselves between a rock and a hard place especially due to their inability to physically receive specific medical…