Assessing and Treating Clients with Psychosis and Schizophrenia

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Assessing and Treating Clients with Psychosis and Schizophrenia. Examine Case Study: Pakistani Woman with Delusional Thought Processes. You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this client.

Assessing and Treating Clients with Psychosis and Schizophrenia

Examine Case Study: Pakistani Woman with Delusional Thought Processes. You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this client. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the client’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics processes.

At each decision point stop to complete the following:

Decision #1
Firstly, Which decision did you select?

Secondly, Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning
Resources.

Thirdly, What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.

Fourthly, Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #1 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?

Decision #2
Firstly, Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning
Resources.

Secondly, What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.

Thirdly, Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #2 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?

Decision #3
Firstly, Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning
Resources.
Secondly, What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #3 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?
Also include how ethical considerations might impact your treatment plan and communication with clients.

14 years girl with eating disorder-she recently discharges

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The patient is a 14 years girl with eating disorder. She recently discharges from hospital due to require NG tube feeding. She also has a 12 years old sister has same eating disorder. Both of her and her sister are rude to their mom. Pleas mention in the reflection and need for a therapy. Please concentrate on Plan part of this assessment.

14 years girl with eating disorder-she recently discharges

The patient is a 14 years girl with eating disorder. She recently discharges from hospital due to require NG tube feeding. She also has a 12 years old sister has same eating disorder. Both of her and her sister are rude to their mom. Pleas mention in the reflection and need for a therapy. Please concentrate on Plan part of this assessment.

ASSESSMENT:

List your priority diagnosis (es). For each priority diagnosis, list at least three differential diagnoses, each of which must be supported with evidence and guidelines. For holistic care, you need to include previous diagnoses and indicate whether these are controlled or not controlled. These should also be include d in your treatment plan.
Anorexia Nervosa 1st,
Bulimia Nervosa 2nd,
Binge eating disorder 3rd,

Please make up the s/s to fit the priority diagnosis (Anorexia Nervosa).

PLAN:

Include additional laboratory and diagnostic tests, consults, therapeutic modalities, health promotion patient education as well as disposition/follow up instructions as they pertain to your patients’ assessment.

Treatment Plan:

If applicable, include both pharmacological and non-pharmacological strategies, alternative therapies, follow-up recommendations, referrals, consultations, and any additional labs, x-ray, or other diagnostics. Support the treatment plan with evidence and guidelines.

Health Promotion:

Include exercise, diet, and safety recommendations, as well as any other health promotion strategies for the patient/family. Support the health promotion recommendations and strategies with evidence and guidelines.

Disease Prevention:

As appropriate for the patient’s age, include disease prevention recommendations and strategies such as fasting lipid profile, mammography, colonoscopy, immunizations, etc. Support the disease prevention recommendations and strategies with evidence and guidelines.

REFLECTION:

Document what you learned from this experience? Any ah-ha’s?

You are required to include at least three evidence based peer-reviewed journal articles or evidenced based guidelines which relates to this case to support your diagnostics and differentials diagnoses. Be sure to use correct APA 6th edition formatting.

Development of an evidence base nursing care for a patient

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This is a paper that focuses on the development of an evidence base nursing care for a patient. The paper provides additional information for a eBook to gather information for this assignment.

Development of an evidence base nursing care for a patient

NURS5018 Assignment Guidelines
1. Undertake a piece of coursework that will require students to develop an evidence based nursing care plan for a person in whose care they have participated,  demonstrating evidence of co-creation with the service user. (50%).

Care plan.

Undertake a piece of coursework that will require students to develop an evidence based nursing care plan for a person in whose care they have participated,  demonstrating evidence of co-creation with the service user.

Please identify one or two nursing problems for a patient you have looked after in practice. Additionally, provide a critical analysis of the evidence available for the interventions to address that problem. Please make recommendations based on this evidence and also clearly state how this will change your future practice should you come across this problem again. This essay should be no more than 2500 words.

A note of caution – there are many care plans available online as well as essays about caring planning. Please be aware of the risks of plagiarism when searching for these materials. All essays are a subject to a similarity analysis and evidence of academic misconduct will be investigated. You can avoid this by ensuring your care plan is co-constructed ( and so is unique) and your work is accurately referenced.

Example essay plan

Don’t forget that your patients are unique and also the following is just a suggestion to help your thought processes.

The following table has been created to help in developing the assignment.
The word count for this writing task is 2,500 words. It will be necessary to also make individual decisions about what to include and what to leave out depending on your patient’s needs.

You may find the following ebook useful to help you understand more about care planning:-

Barrett, D. Wilson, B. Woollands, A (2012) Care Planning and guide for nurses.  Pearson. Harlow.

Scale Evaluation Project Guidelines by practitioners and clinicians

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This is an assignment that focuses on the Scale Evaluation Project Guidelines by practitioners and clinicians. The paper is focusing mostly on the diagnosis of disorders.

Scale Evaluation Project Guidelines by practitioners and clinicians

Background Information
Scales usage are extensively by practitioners and clinicians to diagnose psychological disorders and to measure the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions. They are also by researchers to provide measures of psychological variables being studied. However, badly constructed scales can do more harm than good.
As such, an important skill you need to have as a psychologist is the ability to evaluate psychological scales before you use them. As an introduction to the scale evaluation process, you will be investigating the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ).

Research has identified sense of humour as an important buffer against the negative effects of stress. Basically, a good sense of humour can act as an effective coping mechanism. However, it is clear that people rely on different styles of humour, and not all humour may have beneficial effects.
The HSQ developement was to identify individual differences in humour styles, with findings pointing to some distinct differences that may indeed have implications for health. For us to be confident with any research results obtained from use of the scale, we must check that it has strong psychometric properties.

In this assessment you will be writing a report to assess the construct validity and internal consistency reliability of the HSQ. The items have already been created and a dataset has already been collected which will be available in vUWS.

Questions are in the attachment to the brief background information given above. Ensure that you analyze the information clearly before partaking the assignment. Use APA format and styling in writing your paper and referencing. Ensure that the paper is at least four pages long excluding the cover and reference page.

The financial access to health care discussion in America

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This is a paper that focuses on the financial access to health care discussion in America. The paper also discusses the delivery of health care.

The financial access to health care discussion in America

ASSIGNMENT #1
Discussion: Structure and Costs

Post a clear and also logical response in 250-270 words to the following and provide specific examples to support your answers.
·         Additionally, based on your reading of Chapter 1 “Delivering Health Care in America,” what are the four basic functional components of the U.S. health care delivery system? Also, what role does each play in the delivery of health care?
All posts require college-level writing and APA formatting.

ASSIGNMENT #2

Discussion: Financial Access to Health Care

The authors in Ch. 2 of “Delivering Health Care in America” state, “The principle of market justice leaves the fair distribution of health care up to the market forces in a free economy. Also, the free market implies that giving people something they have not earned would be morally and economically wrong.” (p. 74). On page 76, the authors state that “the equitable distribution of health care is a societal responsibility . . . Social Justice regards health care as a social good—as opposed to an economic good.”
Post a clear and logical response in 250-270 words to the following and also provide specific examples to support your answers.
·         Which model is the most effective for the U.S.? Why? Support your theory with an example from another country.
ASSIGNMENT #3 –very important!

Blog: Health care systems of other countries
Secondly, write a 350–400-word blog that incorporates the following:
·         In the authors’ review of National Health Insurance (NHI), National Health System (NHS), and also Socialized Health Insurance (SHI) systems of other countries, which country’s insurance model is the most effective and which one would be the most effective for use in the United States? Why?

Description of modern slavery in the context of sustainability

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This is a paper that focuses on the description of modern slavery in the context of sustainability. The paper also provides a Rubic for marking criteria of the paper grades.

Description of modern slavery in the context of sustainability

Essay Instructions
“Modern slavery” is a common umbrella term used to describe a range of extreme labour rights abuses – including slavery, servitude, human trafficking and forced or compulsory labour. Due to the onset of globalisation and high competition, cheap labour is in high demand and modern-day slavery in its current form is often hidden in the different layers of international trade among countries, economies and even in supply chains. On 1st January 2019, Australia implemented a new legislation (Modern Slavery Act) which aims to increase transparency about companies’ supply chains.

Prepare a 2500-word (+/- 10%) essay, describing your understanding of Modern Slavery from a sustainability perspective. Provide various examples of cases as found in the literature (Rana Plaza building, apparel firms, etc), websites and media sources; and a discussion of how this could impact procurement and supply chain operations. Include also in your essay, what measures should be taken to ensure more socially responsible and ethical practices in supply chains. Apply concepts and theories where appropriate, and also supporting journal articles to enrich your discussion.

Please use appropriate headings and sub- headings where necessary.
Firstly, describe your understanding of modern slavery.
Secondly, context of sustainability (i.e. social dimension, social responsibility)
Thirdly, discuss the impacts of modern slavery on the supply chain.
E.g. retailers, manufacturers, reputation of focal company, brand name, etc
Suggest measures to ensure more social responsible and ethical practices in supply chain.
·       Keywords: Modern Slavery, Supply chain management, Sustainable supply chains, Corporate social responsibility, Sustainable procurement, Sustainable sourcing, Supply chain auditing, Supply chain compliance, Supply chain ethics, Corporate accountability, Transparency

Description of modern slavery in the context of sustainability

Grades:
Firstly, introduction and description of the topic (10 marks)
Secondly, assessment of the sustainability issue/s (social & ethical considerations) and how they impact supply chain players and/or operations (40 marks)
Thirdly, incorporation of suggested measures (10 marks)
Fourthly, application of knowledge, concepts or theory (20 marks)
English Expression (10 marks)
Referencing (10 marks)
TOTAL 100 marks

·         Useful websites:
https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publications/9cb18e6c/food-for-thought-the-modern-slavery-acts-impact-in-fresh-food-retail-wholesale-and-agriculture

https://www.woolworthsgroup.com.au/page/community-and-responsibility/group-responsibility/partners/Labour_Practices_in_our_global_supply_chain

https://www.nbs.net/articles/fight-slavery-in-your-supply-chain

Developing role of physiotherapy in Health Promotion

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This is a paper that focuses on developing role of physiotherapy in Health Promotion. The paper also considers the government drivers in health promotion.

Developing role of physiotherapy in Health Promotion

The developing role of physiotherapy in Health Promotion and illness prevention, a reflective account.
Guidance:
There is increasing emphasis on the role of physiotherapy in health promotion and also illness prevention, with the economic burden of ill health being felt by individuals, organisations and the healthcare providers.
This assignment is the chance to reflect on what you have witnessed on clinical placement, in relation to HP and IP. Place it in context of current practice and thoughts for the future.
You should include:
• An introduction to the developing role of physiotherapy in health promotion and illness prevention.  Consider:
Background to the problem (health of the population)
What is HP and IP
Introduce the reflection component to the essay.

Body

• The main body of the assignment should be a reflective account of placement experiences of a physiotherapist’s role in health promotion and illness prevention.

Firstly, what did you witness – +ve or -ve. (-ve is not necessarily about criticising what was seen on a placement, but identifying where changes could be made to support HP/IP input, or to develop further where some elements exist).
Secondly, when choosing which experiences to include, consider relevance to physio carefully. I.e. smoking cessation may involve in some of the programmes physios are involve in, but it’s not our area of expertise and also so not a good choice of focus. Emphasis around physical activity would be the most likely option, but your choice as long as directly relevant to physiotherapy.
Thirdly, could be a single experience or a combination, however if using more than one experience, it’s better to stick within the same theme of HP.

As with all assignments you must support your arguments with the relevant literature in that area. Keep it balanced not biased.
This should not be a descriptive piece and so make sure you include analysis, synthesis and evaluation, in the context of the existing evidence.
You can write in the first person for the reflective account.

o Within the assignment you may want to consider:
▪ Government drivers you have witnessed in action, in relation to health promotion and also illness prevention.
▪ The implementation of campaigns by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy that you may have witnessed.

Case Study – Kidney Transplant

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Paper details Case Study – Kidney Transplant

E.M is a 24-year-old female that had a kidney transplant six months ago. She is currently taking cyclosporine, mycophenolate, and prednisone.

She comes to the emergency room at the request of the transplant coordinator with body aches, chills, and severe headache. The assessment and laboratory data noted the following: • T-101.9°F – HR 120 – RR 24, BP 195/100, SPO2 98% RA • Bilateral 1+ edema noted in the ankles • Pain and tenderness when palpating around the kidneys • WBC 2,500 • She has not urinated in 12 hours. She is diagnosed with acute organ rejection and transferred to the transplant unit and started on Antithymocyte globulin (rabbit) and high dose steroids. [McCuistion, L.E., Vuljoin-DiMaggio, K., Winton, M.B., and Yeager, J.J., (2018). Pharmacology A Patient-Centered Nursing Approach (9 ed.) St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.] Assignment: 1. Write two nursing diagnoses with related to and as evident by statements (Only one may be at risk for)? 2. Write a short-term (during shift) and a long-term (before discharge) SMART goal for the patient? 3. What is the action for cyclosporine, mycophenolate, and Antithymocyte globulin (rabbit)? 4. Why does E.M require cyclosporine, mycophenolate, and prednisone? 5. What significant side effects/adverse effects are possible with cyclosporine, mycophenolate, and Antithymocyte globulin (rabbit)? 6. In addition to the physician and nurse, name five other professions that should be involved in M.J.’s care and why? 7. Name some advantages and problems with interdisciplinary teams?

How health care professionals burnout is related to patient care

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How health care professionals’ burnout is related to patient care?

Goals 1. Engage students in a research process that investigates a professional nursing issue.

2. Develop skill in critical thinking and analysis of a research topic.

3. Develop skill in scholarly writing using APA 7th edition formatting.

1. Students are to identify a research topic regarding a professional nursing issue of interest.

2. The term paper is a scholarly submission based-on the analysis of peer reviewed academic resources. Term Paper Guidelines: Articulating the Issue (Paragraph 1)

– Articulate the central issue/concern by bringing the reader towards your topic. Be accurate, objective and compelling.

– Establish the context of the topic, identify perspective from relevant academic research.

– Identify the significance and relevance of the topic to you as the author and what is the specific issue/problem/disagreement you intend to focus on. Background (Paragraph 2)

– Provide a brief background of information about the issue.

– Draw in current literature about the scope, nature and magnitude of the issue by reviewing relevant literature to the topic and researchers in the field.

– Consider defining key terms and characteristics. Philosophical Assumptions ( Paragraph 3)

– Describe your philosophical assumptions in relation to the topic.

This is a reflection of your values and beliefs (your paradigm). How does your philosophical outlook influence your nursing practice regarding this issue? Analyzing the Issue (Paragraph 4/5) This paragraph(s) is to provide a reasoned analysis and evidence that supports your developing understanding of the topic of research. Articulate the context of the issue in relation to Canadian nursing practice (for example consider the historical, ethical, legal, social, cultural or political contexts). Demonstrate growth in your understanding of the topic by drawing on quality academic literature, such as new insights, questions and potential directions. Conclusion/Reinforcement (Last Paragraph )

This final paragraph should offer a succinct summary of the key issue and draw out a concluding statement about the topic. In your conclusion you should identify new insights, further questions and potential directions for future research. Your final sentences should touch on the significance of the issue to nursing and leave the reader with a positive message (‘food for thought’).

Impact on constructing a Motorway outside a care home for people with dementia

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Description

write an essay/report based on the impact construction o(mainly a motorway) would have on older people and people with dementia living in a care home. The motorway will be constructed beside the care home. Health issues such as air pollution (which may cause cardiovascular problems), noise level (which could cause sleep deprivation), Mental health. Risks. Use peer and literature reviews if possible Please find attached list of references I have looked at. You can reference some of these, but also referencing within these journals. I’m sure you will see when you read the journals. The most recent the better.