Nursing diagnosis

Introduction The art of diagnosis is complicated, and unintentional misdiagnosis can wreak havoc on the lives of the client, as well as the clinician. This leads one to ponder the circumstances and consequences of a deliberate misdiagnosis by a trained clinician who has taken an oath to operate with utmost integrity. In the article, Deliberate Misdiagnosis, the author spoke about situations where a clinician might feel pressured to deliberately under or over diagnosis a client. Several…

Retrospective diagnosis is examining the evidence/archives from ancient medicine or any other era and comparing that data to today’s era of medicine, or it can be to diagnose a patient from the past with today’s knowledge by using the documents and/or artifacts that may be relevant or pertain to the patient. Therefore, this paper is going to examine how retrospective diagnosis works, examples of retrospective diagnosis, it’s strengths and weaknesses, and why retrospective diagnosis is important…

the ability to flip to a diagnosis of any given patient encountered in practicum or internship and read the diagnostic criteria, associated supporting features, development and course, risk and prognostic factors, culture-related issues, suicide risk, functional consequences, differential diagnosis and comorbidity aids in the student’s exposure to the diagnosis from multiple viewpoints (APA, 2013). In addition, the depth…

brain activity of their patient, which has allowed them to be able to see the effects of the disease in the early stages. Monitoring the brain activity can be done a few ways, but in the end comes down to the doctors making graphs to assemble their diagnosis. They also like to do blood work along with this, just to make sure the symptoms the patients are having are not from another form of…

Diagnoses in medicine involving deception are some of the most difficult phenomenon’s to detect: factitious disorder, malingering, Munchausen syndrome, and Munchausen by proxy. As a starting point for diagnosis and treatment, doctors rely on reported symptoms in order to accurately detect the problems with the patients. When patients give misleading information, consciously or unconsciously, doctors and physicians are unable to accurately diagnose the patient (Dyer & Feldman, 2007). This…

I Promise All around me, men and women of different rankings pass by the ER with varying levels of urgency. Bouncing a tennis ball, I stared through the glass door of my office, labeled “Doug P Mills, M.D., Head of Diagnostic Medicine. The passages of this hospital cried with emotional distress. Patients, doctors, nurses, and visitors all share one thing in common: empathy. The walls reek of tears and hope. For me, I’m amused at the doctors that lose sleep over their patients. Emotion is just a…

WIllem Einthoven is the creator of the electrocardiogram, it is used today everywhere in the health field, in ambulances, hospitals, etc. This is to show how it was first made, and who created it, and first developed it. Along with how it has helped people today in modern times. Understanding how willem einthoven had a compelling achievement in understanding the heart rhythms and how to analyze them. In this essay I will help you understand what is essential to vital human life today, and how it…

For health promotion, one of the nursing diagnoses could be ineffective protection related to an abusive father as evidence by past history of abuse and current bruising. An actual nursing diagnosis could be impaired verbal communication related to the trauma of the abusive incident as evidence by unusual behavior, lack of eye contact, and denial of the incident. A potential nursing diagnosis is a risk for other-directed violence related to an abusive father becoming…

Planning/Outcomes The two nursing diagnosis I will continue to focus on are ineffective airway clearance and ineffective family coping. Ineffective airway clearance is the first step in managing Bud's respiratory problems. Focusing on airway, we can enable Bud to breath with more ease and address his nagging cough. Ineffective family coping will address one of the other main functions of hospice. Hospices goal is not only to alleviate any pain and suffering for the patient, but also provide…

This paper goes in depth about the topic of confusion. It first starts off by defining what chronic confusion is. It also explains the differences between acute and chronic confusion. It briefly goes into explaining why nursing theory is important in the health care system. Another topic mentioned in this paper is, Orem’s theory of self-care deficit. This theory is explained and related to chronic confusion. Lastly this paper relates how chronic confusion effects daily living.  Chronic…