Natural Disaster and Mental Health: A Reflection Paper on Analyzing the Development and Environment (ADE) By Selahuddin Yu Hashim MDM 2013 When mother earth rages escaping from it is an almost impossible mission to achieve. Even nations with the most sophisticated technology may find it difficult to counter the destructive effect of natural disaster. And even if one is able to lessen its impact‚ it still results in devastation of the land affecting many people. The experience in Mt. Pinatubo
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NU 306 Mental Health Nursing *Reflections: Clinical Experiences in Community - Gero 1. Describe characteristics of clients served by this program. The clients at Shoals Hospital in the geriatric psyc. Unit were obviously old. I think the youngest person was a 60 year old female. All had psychiatric disorders but the disorder that seemed to be most prevalent was Major Depressive Disorder. I also got to talk to the oldest living person with Huntington’s disease which was very cool. 2
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DIABETIC TEACHING PLAN Teaching/learning methods used: * Individual Instruction * Visual aids * Return demonstration * Reinforce teaching * Group discussion * Questions and Answers Topic(s) on Diabetes: (Do not select more than two topics). 1. What is Diabetes? (include Type I and Type II) 2. Oral Anti -Diabetic Medications 3. Insulin administration and Storage 4. Diet instructions
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Unit CMH 302 Understand mental health problems Unit aim This unit aims to provide the learner with knowledge of the main forms of mental health problems according to the psychiatric classification system. Learners also consider the strengths and limitations of this model and look at alternative frameworks for understanding mental distress. The focus of the unit is on understanding the different ways in which mental health problems impact on the individual and others in their social network
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that serious mental illnesses are associated with an increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes. In 2004‚ Dixon et al. published a study titled "A Comparison of Type 2 Diabetes Outcomes among Persons With and Without Severe Mental Illnesses" that compared the glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels of patients who had type 2 diabtes and schizophrenia with those patients who had type 2 diabetes and major mood disorders and those who had type 2 diabtes but who did not have severe mental illness. The
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INTENSIVE NURSING PRACTICUM 2nd Semester School Year 2011 - 2012 Clinical Teaching Plan Cagayan Valley Medical Center (Surgery Ward) Prepared by: ____________________________________ Noted by: _________________________________________ Approved By: ______________________________________________ CLINICAL TEACHING PLAN DESCRIPTION OF LEARNERS * an assessment tool used for identifying an individual student’s strengths and needs in various content and developmental areas
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How can consultation be used as a primary mental health intervention? Secondary? Tertiary? Briefly define primary‚ secondary‚ and tertiary prevention and tell how consultation can be used as an intervention in each area. Reflect on your future (or current) career‚ how do you see the role of consultation fitting into your professional goals? There are different areas intervention targets. There are three known methods used for intervention. The three methods are informational‚ consultation‚ and
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behavioural/mental health sector is a $99 billion industry‚ yet mental health still remains to be one of the most neglected and under resourced areas in public health‚ regardless of the fact that the need is ever growing (Bhattacharya et all. 2001). In the diagram displayed below‚ it is clear that mental disorders represent one of the top burdens worldwide‚ therefore has more than enough reason to take action more seriously in terms of funding. Figure 1: Burden of diseases worldwide (World Health Organization
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America Mental Health George Bush developed the Commission on Mental Health Services (CMHS) in response to the obstacles that exist for people to receive adequate mental health care in the US. The CMHS came up with six goals to transform our mental health care in the US. First goal is to successfully have Americans understand that mental health is essential to your overall well-being (Achieving the Promise). Often times‚ too many Americans are not knowledgeable about the different types of mental
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Movie Nuts Mental Health and Crisis Intervention December 10‚ 2012 Abstract This paper is going to involve mental health issues. There will be presented recommendations for strategies and practices that can be used to address mental health. This paper will also indicate how the circumstances and/or behaviors in the movie that may have caused mental health concerns. How the mental health issue contributed to the criminal conduct being charged in the case. It will address if the
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