Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the United States affecting both males and females of varying ages. Depression, or a depressive illness, involves intense feelings of sadness that endure long enough to interfere with one’s daily life (Zartaloudi, 2011). Depression manifests differently in men and women according to social, biological, and…
Improving Health Practitioners Knowledge of Transgender Health Care
Improving Health Practitioners’ Knowledge of Transgender Health Care: Measuring the Efficacy of the ECHO Project Transgender (trans) is an umbrella term used to describe individuals with gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria involves a conflict between a person’s assigned sex and gender at birth, and the gender in which a person identifies (Reisner, Radix, & Deutsch, 2016)….
Strength Based Models for People With Dementia
The strength based model represents a paradigm shift — a movement away from a deficit based model which is one that can lead to a long list of the things that are considered to be ‘wrong’ with people’s learning and development or that people cannot do, and insufficient information about strengths and strategies to support…
Causes of Stress and Their Impacts
Causes of Stress and Their Impacts Causes of Stress and Their Impacts Stress has many different causes as well as negative impacts that are associated with it. The effects that stress has on police officers are numerous. When thinking about the word “Stress” and all of the many different definitions that people apply it to,…
Overview of Von Willebrand Factor
Von Willebrand Factor Von Willebrand Factor is a very important glycoprotein that is needed for Haemostasis in the body, without vWF patients can suffer from severe bleeding disorders, so it’s crucial to know about this important glycoprotein in order to be able to help patients who suffered from a vascular injury and also recovering from…
Effects of Dementia | Considering Gender and Age
Dementia has been associated with impaired memory, poor orientation, low thinking capacity, low comprehension, language problems, poor calculation, poor judgment and learning capacity. With such effects there is need to establish the magnitude on the patients so as to paint a clear picture of the pandemic. This proposal seeks to identify the effects of dementia…
Reflective Analysis Time Management And Nursing Nursing Essay
An event that was meaningful to me as a nurse happened during my clinical time at St. Michael’s Hospital when I did not wash my patient before 8:00 am in order to prepare her to go to a plastic surgery appointment later on that day. My patient’s 10:00 am Heparin administration was delayed by 45…
Vaping Prevention in Teens
Introduction E-cigarettes, also known as vaping products, are battery-operated devices that mimic the smoking experience using an inhalation process that vaporizes fluid within the device. Research on e-cigarette use primarily among adolescents is just emerging. Studies in several countries including the USA, Poland, and Korea are showing a dramatic increase in interest and use of…
Comparison of Biomedical and Biopsychological Models of Disease
For some time, researchers have struggled to find a model that explains the prevalence of a disease within individuals or a community of people. Some of the models that have been in existence, such as the biomedical model and the biopsychosocial model have been used by medical practitioners to examine the prevalence of diseases in…
Comparison of Lifestyle and Infectious Disease on Impacts to Human Health
Rationale In Australia, increasing living standards have led to a significant reduction in the rates of infectious diseases. The benefits of abundant resources have also led to a high prevalence of preventable diseases arising from lifestyle patterns. Because of these trends, lifestyle dependent diseases will likely be a greater threat to Australian public health than…