Depression and Anxiety in Older Adults: Are there gaps in current knowledge regarding diagnosis and treatment? Introduction Mental health problems in older adults can cause a massive social impact, often bringing about poor quality of life, isolation and exclusion. Depression is one of the most debilitating mental health disorders worldwide, affecting approximately 7% of the…
Neuroplasticity and Traumatic Brain Injury
The perceptual process “begins outside of you, with stimuli in the environment… and ends with the behavioral responses of perceiving, recognizing and taking action” (Goldstein, 2014, p.5). In other words, it is the sequence of psychological steps that a person uses to organize and interpret information from the outside world. The selection, organization, and interpretation…
Patients Understanding of Pain and How This Relates to Osteopathic Management
Annotated Bibliography relating to: Patients understanding of pain and how this relates to osteopathic management. Colleary, G., O’Sullivan, K., Griffin, D., Ryan, C. G., & Martin, D. J. (2017). Effects of pain neurophysiology education on physiotherapy students’ understanding of chronic pain, clinical recommendations and attitudes towards people with chronic pain: a randomized controlled trial. Physiotherapy,…
Literature Review On Nicotine Addiction
Despite the health risks, nicotine addiction is still prominent today. While smokers are aware of these risks, they continue to engage in the practice of smoking. The purpose of this essay is to identify the potential causes of nicotine addiction, as well as an exploration of the current literature related to nicotine cessation methods. With…
Reflection on Relationships that Develop in Care Work
Adam Nawrocki Identifying and Meeting the Needs of Individual Client Reflection on relationships that develop in care work The first day I started my practice as scheduled at 8 00, was invited to an interview with the CNM, in order to introduce me and I know a standard organization was given a tour on the…
Personal Reflection: Experience that Changed Responsibility
Personal experience that impacted a change in my personal responsibility Growing up, I have found my adolescent age very interesting and easy all the while. This is because of the care and love I received from my parents. The story changed when I was 12, I was enrolled into a boarding school where I was…
Management of Shoulder Dystocia: A Reflective Essay
Title: A reflective essay on how you would manage a shoulder dystocia as an obstetric emergency in a stand alone midwife led unit. Undergraduate Degree Level Essay 1,000 Words Essay The condition of shoulder dystocia is diagnosed when the delivery of the foetal head is prevented by the impaction of one of the foetal shoulders…
Self Reflection on Communication in Nursing
AMITA KHOWAJA Introduction Reflection is an organized and a planned way to think positively and make better decisions. Reflection allow person to learn from their mistakes and past experiences. This is more applicable to form the fundamentals of healing and therapeutic process in health care field. According to Parker (2006) Reflection in health care profession…
Reflective Essay on Empowering Healthcare Professionals
This reflective account is going to explore a lecture that has changed my perception since the start of the nursing programme. I have chosen Gibbs (1998) reflective model to explore what I have learned, what my thoughts were before the lecture and changes. Therefore, to demonstrate an awareness of my learning outcome. I would also…
Health Visitor Reflective Essay
I attended a core group meeting for a family with complex needs. Parents Poppy and Richard had struggled to overcome a class A drug addiction and that there were grave concerns about the wellbeing of the 4 children in the family home. I sat opposite Poppy across a small table as this was the last…