Individuals that have been deemed by their medical team to have serious diseases that are resistant, nonresponsive or have failed reasonable treatments are often referred to specialists for “comfort measures only”. According to the World Health Organization, “Palliative care is the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment. Control…
Roys Adaptation Model in Practice
Roy’s Adaptation Model in Practice What is the Roy’s Adaptation Model? The Roy adaptation Model was created by a woman named Sister Callista Roy from 1964-1966 while she was working on her master’s degree in nursing. The model is focused on four components: adaptation, person, environment, and health (Petiprin 2016). According to Roy (2009), “adaptation…
The Role(s) of Biomarkers in Personalized/Precision Medicine
Introduction It is becoming more widely recognized that in order to effectively prevent and treat any health condition a systems biology approach needs to be adopted (Carini et al., 2016). The focus of systems biology is to analyze the complex relationships between the components of biological systems in response to molecular to environmental influences. A…
Mental Health Action Plan: Prevention of Suicide in University Students in UK
Background This action plan is going to demonstrate some strategies and new implementation for prevention of suicide ration in university and college student in England, for its coming brief paper assist and outlines. Suicide word came from Latin word “suicidium” that defines as “to kill oneself”. Suicide word means to act intentionally taking own’s life….
Ignorance of Physical Health in Mental Health
According to the World health organization (2007) “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being , not merely the absence of disease and infirmity”. From this definition we surmise three main aspects and they always stroll side by side. This definition has both psychiatric and medicine field which insist us for holistic…
Roy Adaptation Model in Nursing Practice
The Roy Adaptation Model was proposed by Sister Callista Roy and first published in 1970. The model has greatly influenced the profession of nursing. It is one of the most frequently used models to guide nursing research. This paper discusses an overview of the model, the clarity of the model, five major key concepts in…
Effect of Massages During Pregnancy
Nikita S. Windham Pregnancy and Massage Research has discovered new information that maybe something can be done to help make pregnancy more tolerable that is not only safe but also effective. This solution is known as prenatal massage. Prenatal massage simply put is massage that is personalized specifically to the ever-changing bodies of pregnant women….
Private Hospitals for Undergraduate Medical Training
Private Hospitals for undergraduate medical training – an untapped resource in Ireland. Introduction Undergraduate medical education and training is a subject of considerable importance in relation to the quality of learning and teaching opportunities for students, and the ability of the learning environments to support the development of clinical skills and knowledge, professional practice and…
End of Life Care: Cancer Patients Right to Die
Introduction Recently, the concept of patient autonomy has become more prevalent within the healthcare field with the government and the NHS promoting patient choice and providing assurance that individuals will have full control over their care and patient journey. However, a recent publication from Macmillan Cancer Care (MCC) (2013a, pp. 1-27), suggests that there is…
Nurse Provides Prescription Medicine Without Authority
A Nurse Board received a complaint concerning allegations that registered nurse, whilst working in the emergency department of hospital, practiced outside the scope by knowingly providing prescription only medication to a patient without the authority of medical officer. When interviewed, the nurse stated the patient attended the emergency department for treatment and the department was…