Psychiatric medication

requesting PAD), is a resident of Oregon, and has been determined by the attending physician and consulting physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, and who has voluntarily expressed his or her wish to die, may make a written request for medication for the purpose of ending his or her life in a humane and dignified manner in accordance with ORS 127.800 to 127.897. Within this basic excerpt, the patient must also be at least 18 years old, a resident of the requested state, mentally…

patient be compliant with any and all medication/treatment administered. In many healing centers, lots of these individuals are coerced into taking baths with a “special water”, drinking random herbal concoctions, and undergoing painful supposedly “therapeutic” massages as part of these forced treatments. A substratum standard of medical ethics is informed consent. Informed consent is a fundamental human right and forcing individuals to take certain medications or undergo treatments without…

In spite of the various issues that mentally ill chemical abusers antagonize with during treatment, effective treatment of dual diagnosis disorders solely rests on an accurate evaluation. This essay is centered on option B as it seeks to explain the unique problems associated with treating an individual afflicted with co-occurring disorders of mental illness and substance abuse, the barriers towards effective treatment and the best treatment strategy. Clinically, individuals with schizophrenia…

treatment. Medication is another way to treat a patient but this has not currently being approved by the Food and Drug Administration due to insufficient evidence that the drugs would directly help patients that have antisocial personality disorder. In the other hand, Doctor that have patients seeking for help would prescribed medications that associated patterns with ASPD, such as impulsive aggression, anxiety, depression and etc. They may prescribe antianxiety, antipsychotic medications, mood…

A 49 year-old divorced Iranian woman presented to an outpatient Manly Hospital in Sydney after a 3-year history of prolonged hospitalizations due to recurrent major depressive disorder with diagnosed psychotic features and chronic impulsive suicidality. Except for brief periods of partial recovery lasting less then 2 weeks, the patient reported several years of chronic sadness, anhedonia, tearfulness, psychomotor retardation, suicidality, guilty ruminations, decreased sleep and appetite,…

A plethora of theories have served as the basis for the practice of psychiatric mental health nursing since the 1950’s. Hildegard Peplau drew her theory of Interpersonal Nursing from the work of Harry Stack Sullivan and the interactionists, who focused on the interpersonal relationship as the focus of healing. Certainly, this is a strong choice for the psychiatric nurse in practice. Fitzpatrick and Tusaie identify clearly how important it is that “Advanced Practice Registered Nurse professional…

The patient is a 83-year-old female who presents from home where she had fallen 3 times in the past 2 days. She said she fell back and hit her head with no loss of consciousness. Her medical history is significant for anxiety, hypertension, coronary disease and seizures. On presentation her BP is 160/70, pulse of 78, respirations of 15, and she is afebrile. The patient was evidently taken to CAT scan and although there is no clear reason for it she was alleged to fallen off the CAT scan…

the presence of delusions, hallucinations, and negative symptoms, all visible for more than one month (American Psychiatric Association, p. 99). There are more than one type of delusion displayed by Mr. Simpson including: persecutory, referential, and grandiose delusions. Persecutory delusions are the belief that someone(s) are harassing, spying, or plan to harm oneself (American Psychiatric Association, p. 87). Mr. Simpson exemplifies this type of delusion with the belief that the shoe store is…

is a partnership in the fullest sense of the word” (Phillipson, n.d., para. 2). The relationship between the two determines how successful the therapy is. Cognitive therapy has been proven to be more effective in long-term treatment of OCD than medications. Cognitive therapy can be split up into cognitive conceptualization and cognitive management (Phillipson, n.d.). Cognitive conceptualization “focuses on removing the sense of…

diagnosis applicable to only a portion of individuals who sexually abuse children. Information has been drawn from published research about pedophilia to present the current state of knowledge. Pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder that is not curable but is treatable by psychiatric care and/or medication. The progression of the sexual abuse (pedophilia) is usually a gradual progression. Children who have been sexually abused by a pedophile may have different functional disorders. The purpose of…