Nursing diagnosis

screening tests used to diagnose someone with PTSD. The criteria to be diagnosed with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder is very extensive. In the DSM-V there is eight different sets of criterion which all require a number of symptoms to be met before a diagnosis can be made. “Criterion A” requires that at least one of the following needs are met to be diagnosed: Direct exposure to serious injury or death, witnessing the trauma, learning that a close friend or family member was exposed to a trauma,…

Article Assessment- Oppositional Defiant Disorder Kathryn Ervin Appalachian State University Overview of ODD ODD is a pattern of behaviors; angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, and vindictiveness. The symptoms have to be distressing in areas of social functioning to themselves and others, and cause significant problems in all areas such as school, work, home. The symptoms must be present among at least one person that is not a sibling. The behaviors have…

two great arteries with ventricular septal defect; however, it was determined he had been born with these. Upon Ethan being diagnosed Val did not feel any type of relief. She felt angry because of the unnecessarily late diagnosis. While Val was telling me the story of Ethan’s diagnosis I noticed that she was very discriminated against because of her age. The doctors assumed that because she was 16 she didn’t know anything especially in regards to having a…

Diagnosis of Neurofibromatosis type 1 is based mainly on clinical findings which meet the diagnostic criteria for Neurofibromatosis 1 which was developed by the National Institutes of Health. Since Neurofibromatosis 1 is caused by heterozygous pathogenic modifications in NF1, molecular testing is rarely needed for diagnosis, and is only useful for certain individuals. The diagnostic criteria for Neurofibromatosis 1 is: 1 they must have six or more café-au-lait macules which are, for prepubescent…

physician checkups are a waste of time and money and that the doctor is only trying to make another buck at prescribing medication for a false issue. Oppositionists say that doctors are always trying to help and would never give a patient a false diagnosis because they are being treated by a professional. Although, many argue that checkups are an optional task, many disagree, saying they are mandatory. “Bad science” is another phrase for doctors falsely prescribing patient’s medication just…

Differential Diagnosis Primary Diagnosis The primary diagnosis of Mandy and Donna Roberts is factitious disorder imposed on another, a condition in which an individual inflicts an illness on someone else. The most predictive characteristic in patients is the absence of symptoms when the victim is separated from the caretaker (Greiner, Palusci, Keeshin, Kearns, & Sinal, 2013). The school nurse “did not think Mandy had any medical problems”; she appeared healthy and operational in the school…

One of the implications that is raised in these articles about ADHD, for children and families include, the fact the widely held theory that ADHD that was purely descriptive of the two behavioral deficits – inattention and hyperactivity- could not account for all of the cognitive and behavioral deficits associated with ADHD. Families had to understand that there are more nuances to ADHD than just those two issues. Another major implication is that behavioral inhibition, goal directed behavior…

medicine does not cure, it only keeps the symptoms under control, “But medications don’t cure ADHD; they only control the symptoms on the day they are taken (Pg. 7)”. Let alone prescribed medication for a disorder that is diagnosed subjectively, “. . .diagnosis is based on the subjective opinion of the diagnoser (Pg. 9)”. Behavior rating scales are one of the main forms of evaluating potential ADHD patients. According to Timimi and Radcliffe, this scale is based off of questions using words…

et al. (2009) that the ICF is a more comprehensive tool as it focuses on human functioning and provides a system to enable description of the components of functioning that are impacted by a health condition. Rather than a sole focus on giving a diagnosis which is followed by a pharmacological treatment, like the biomedical framework, the ICF framework allows a comprehensive understanding of ones’ capacities and participation which allows an ample description of health, illness and treatment…

ADHD is a highly over identified disability and is also overprescribed, since ADHD is highly over medicated health diagnoses should try to find alternative treatments. ADHD affects a lot of young kids and many adults but is mostly diagnosed for children in preschool and elementary. Affecting most kids, ADHD is also over identified in school children. When students are identified as having ADHD they are instantly labeled as having ADHD and get prescribed the drugs they need to help out with it.…