Nursing Care Plan for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is characterized by recurrrent obsession (intruitive images,impulses and though) and compulsion (repetitive behaviour in response to an obsession. The obsession and compulsion can cause intense stress and impairement of functioning. Fear of losing control, fear of losing the self esteem, overly conscientious, perfectionistic, have trouble to being spontaneously and filled with self-doubt are common experiences by client. Frequently the client will use defence mechanisms of denial, reaction formation, isolation and...

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How to Make a Scientific Poster

Be Wise When Choosing Wisely-MedScape Introduction    A scientific poster is an illustrated abstract of research that is displayed at meetings and conferences. A poster is a good way of presenting your information because it can reach a large audience, including people who might not be in your field. It is also a useful step towards publishing your research. Some conferences publish poster abstracts, which then count as publications in their own right.    A successful poster captures the viewer’s attention and communicates...

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Annoying Hospital Politics

 Annoying Hospital Politics Brian Fishman, DO, General Practice, 06:45PM Dec 21, 2012 (Medscape)    A couple of weeks ago, I saw a young girl in the ER who came in with her husband to be evaluated for postpartum psychosis. We tend to get a lot of psychiatric patients coming through our emergency department because we have an entire floor (roughly half of our hospital) devoted to inpatient psychiatric care. This girl had a history of bipolar disorder and was 9 weeks postpartum. She was extremely depressed and hearing voices. She...

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Therapeutic Dialogue (Medscape) Introduction    'You're a doctor. Can I ask you a medical question?' It isn't easy to refuse when someone asks, so I said yes and waited to hear what would follow. The questioner on this occasion was a Greek builder called Costas. We were standing in my back garden, where Costas and his team of eastern European labourers were doing some work. He said the question was a very simple one—at least in his view: 'What are the chances of dying after a stroke?' I took a deep breath and asked him to tell me more.   ...

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Despite significant progress on development goals, many challenges remain – UN official

Dylan Lowthian    27 February 2013 – While countries have made remarkable progress in the achievement of some of the eight anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there are still areas where too little has occurred since nations first committed to work on these issues in 2000, a United Nations official said today.    “There has undoubtedly been progress on many of the indicators targeted by the MDGs,” the Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), Helen Clark, told participants at the...

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Nursing Care Plan for Bipolar Disorder

Also known as manic-depression is a severe disturbance in affect, manifested by episodes of extreme sadness alternating with episode euphoria. There are two common patterns of bipolar disorder;bipolar I, in which depressive episode alternate with full manic episodes.bipolar II, characterized by recurrent depressive episodes and occasional with manic episodes. Assesment findings for bipolar disorderDuring periods of mania;bizarre and eccentric appereancedifficulty concentration, flight of idea, delusion...

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Nursing Process

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia    The nursing process is a modified scientific method.Nursing practise was first described as a four stage nursing process by Ida Jean Orlando in 1958.It should not be confused with nursing theories or Health informatics. The diagnosis phase was added later.    The nursing process uses clinical judgement to strike a balance of epistomology between personal interpretation and research evidence in which critical thinking may play a part to categorize the clients issue and course of action....

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NANDA International Leg

NANDA International (formerly the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association) is a professional organization of nurses standardized nursing terminology that was officially founded in 1982 and develops, researches, disseminates and refines the nomenclature, criteria, and taxonomy of nursing diagnoses. In 2002, NANDA relaunched as NANDA International in response to the broadening scope of its membership. NANDA International published Nursing Diagnosis quarterly, which became the International Journal of Nursing Knowledge in 2002. Other related...

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Why Are MDs Burning Out in Record Numbers?

(Medscape and Dr. Paul Griner)    Physicians who feel a sense of burnout, take heart — you're not alone. A recent study of 7288 doctors published in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed that nearly one half — 46% — reported at least 1 symptom of burnout, as measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory.    According to physician Paul Griner, MD, author of The Power of Patient Stories: Learning Moments in Medicine, the figure is especially alarming considering that burnout can lead to inadequate assessment of patients and misdiagnoses.   ...

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