...Running head: CASE STUDY LS Mental Health Case Study LS Nicole Castro College of Southern Nevada Division of Nursing Mental Health Nursing Clinical NURS 243C-S10 Micki Lin Mongogna-Alarcon, MA, BSN, RN October 18, 2010 Mental Health Case Study DM Demographic Data: LS is a 44 year-old female of African and Hispanic decent. She was born in California but moved to Las Vegas as a teenager. She stated that she attended Clark High School and went to a “stewardess college” in California. She worked as a stewardess for 4 years and quit in 1986. Her father was African-American and her mother is Hispanic. She has 4 brothers and 2 sisters. She is married and lives with her husband and his son in their private home. She has two children, fathered by her ex-husband, who are now in custody of LS’s mother. Her children were taken away from her, by the court, due to her abuse of drugs and alcohol. LS stated that her father abused alcohol and that all of her brothers and sisters abused drugs and were diagnosed with bipolar disorder. LS stated that she started noticing symptoms of what she thought was depression 6 years ago but was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2005. Her chart stated that she has had an 11 year history of bipolar disorder. Presenting Problem: LS stated that she had not been taking her medications for four days because her husband forgot to pick up her medications from the pharmacy. However, her chart stated that she was off of her medications...
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...Mental Health Case Study Ron Kovic is a Caucasian-American male, 71 years of age, who was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after serving two tours of duty with the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam war. The patient was also paralyzed from the chest down after being shot first in the right foot, which tore out the back of his heel, then again through the right shoulder, suffering a collapsed lung and a spinal cord injury during his second tour. Consequently, the patient spent a week in an intensive care ward in Da Nang military hospital in central Vietnam before being sent back to the United States and admitted at a Bronx veteran’s hospital in New York. The patient hailed from a Roman Catholic family, whose...
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...Mental/Behavioral Case Studies Tony Claiborne HCS/245 November 26, 2014 Lori Olson Jim Wolf is a 45 year old store owner who constantly washes his hands. He continually checks and rechecks his part lists, equipment, and his employee’s schedules. After his wife raises concerns about his work performance and inability to sleep, he is referred to a physician. A psychiatrist has diagnosed him with OCD. OCD is an anxiety disorder that has two parts, obsessive and compulsive. The obsessive portion relates to an individuals consistent thought process or emotion over things. The compulsive portion relates to the individual not being able to resist the act of performing acts. With OCD, the individual is unable to stop their thought processes or action in doing tasks (Neighbors, 2014). Based on the disease and stage it presents, Jim should receive a primary level of care. The two main types of treatment for OCD are psychotherapy and medications. Receiving both types of treatment should allow Jim to live a better life without having the anxiety about his daily compulsions. Jim and others can find more information about the cause, effect, and treatment options available from their primary care provider (PCM) or from reputable medical journals and hospital websites. The Mayo Clinic offers some valuable and reputable information at http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ocd/basics/treatment/con-20027827. Coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder can be challenging. Medications...
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...the purpose of the paper: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the increased incidence of non-adherence mental health medications in the homeless population 2. State the problem your intervention addresses, and target population: The problem is limited knowledge about different support services, and being able to access, retain and follow treatment plan. This simply boils down to limited knowledge regarding community resources and being able to know how to access those resources The target population is the mental health Homeless Population in California/Yolo County 3. State your proposed intervention: The intervention is a supportive service program intended to assist the mental health homeless population in guiding them to be able to seek local resources so they can access, retain, and follow their treatment plan, and limit the amount of...
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...Jade July 26, 2015 Mental/Behavioral Case Studies My 57-year-old client, Mr. Speed, has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. At this time, he seems to be in the early stage of the disease, and I feel that he would benefit from medication and therapy. He lives with his wife, and both of them are employed full time. He would like to continue working and living life to the fullest. Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, is a brain disease that progressively destroys thinking skills and memory. Although the cause of this disease is unknown, researchers believe that the accumulation of the protein amyloid in the brain may contribute to its onset. Although most individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease are 65 years of age and older, it is not uncommon to develop the disease at a younger age, like my client, Mr. Speed. Early-onset Alzheimer’s has been known to affect people in their 50’s.Jade Galvan HCS/245 July 26, 2015 Mental/Behavioral Case Studies My 57-year-old client, Mr. Speed, has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. At this time, he seems to be in the early stage of the disease, and I feel that he would benefit from medication and therapy. He lives with his wife, and both of them are employed full time. He would like to continue working and living life to the fullest. Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, is a brain disease that progressively destroys thinking skills and memory. Although the cause of this disease...
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...Case 1 Outline 1. A child is seen by a general practioner in an office setting for flu like symptoms. The child removes his shirt upon request to reveal bruises on his torso. The mother is questioned about the bruises, she explains they are from a procedure known as “cao gio”, also referred to as “coining”. This procedure is done to raise bad blood and improve circulation. This is done by rubbing warm oils or gels on a person’s skin with a coin or flat metal object. When the stethoscope touches his skin, he winces with pain. The question is, should the mother be reported to Child Protective Services? 2. Ethical issue identified is the Right Approach. 3. Facts of Case# 1 A. Child has flu symptoms B. Child has bruises C. Child is...
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...Case Summary The patient, a 23-year-old male (date of birth September 30, 1994), presented to the facility’s Emergency Department on February 27, 2018, with a history of schizophrenia, seizure disorder, polysubstance abuse (ETOH, marijuana, heroin and BZDs), opiate intoxication, depression and suicidality. The patient was admitted to the Medical Center on February 27, 2018. The following diagnoses were submitted: Admitting Diagnosis of altered mental status; Principal Diagnosis of seizure disorder; Secondary Diagnoses: enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile; suicidal ideation; sedative hypnotic or anxiolytic dependence with withdrawal; opioid dependence with withdrawal; other psychoactive substance use unspecified with mood disorder;...
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...Explain how the community agency is handling this problem Comcare mental health centers provide mental health rehabilitation services for adults and children who has mental illness and addiction problem like substance abuse. The goal of comcare is to provide affordable mental health services designed to improve their clients function ,quality of life and to prevent the need for more intensive and expensive mental health treatment in the in future. Comcare believe that 1. Mental health and chemical dependency is a treatable disease 2. Recovery is an ongoing process and when to treatment building a strong foundation is very important. 3. Everybody need to be involved, team approach is necessary for meeting our patients’ physical, emotional,...
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...Mental Health Courts are effective in reducing recidivism Mental health courts operate in State level and link offenders who would ordinarily be prison-bound to long-term community-based treatment. Mental health courts, after a mental health assessment to the offenders, choose individualized treatment plan, so cover the needs of offenders and public safety. Although mental health courts vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but most share the following characteristics: A specialized docket. Judicial supervised, community- based treatment plans for each defendant participating in the court. Regular status hearing at which treatment plans are review for appropriateness. Criteria defines a participant’s competition of the program. In Broward County, Florida, has had low recidivism rates for mental illness offenders. Sheriff Jenne indicates that the cost is $80 per day to house a general population inmate and $130 a day to detain a person with mental illness; in Miami the cost of treating inmates with mental illness is $125 per day, while the cost for healthy inmates average $18 a day. “By diverting inmates with mental illnesses from the jail to Community treatment in Pinellas County, Florida, treatment cost $60 a day per individual diverted” (Slate, and Johnson, 2008)....
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...between marriage of young adults and mental health. In other words, how marriage influence on mental health. Actually, some recent researches have been indicated that the marriage itself bears a mental health benefits, indeed the age at first marriage, life cycle and transition to adulthood are all the identical variables, which may describe the influence on mental health. Hence, this article was organized to test the main hypotheses, how the marriage confer mental health in accordance with different life course. The reason for studying this particular phenomena and interestingness of this issue is probably that this current issue has been rising and becoming popular in our modern days. Millions of examples of early marriages, high rate of divorce and abandoned children, amount of uneducated people, are all consequentially have an impact on mental health with what lot of young adults face with. In this study, the author is willing to answer the for several questions which might explain the causal relationship between marriage and mental health of young adult, beside this he classified young adults into different categories to analyze what sort of mental health outcomes would arise out of different group of adults. The questions, which are assigned to this study, are: a. What is the effect of marriage on mental health and other relationship circumstances? b. What kinds of effect does it carry? c. Is there differences among mental effects as result of first marriage age...
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...of the mental health counseling profession? In addition to social support, research shows that many people suffer severe trauma from a natural disaster that require will require mental health care. After a natural disaster, individuals may suffer from anxiety, anger, sleeplessness, hopelessness, and depression. As an example, Aten, Topping, Denney & Hosey (2011) conducted a study at a local church, and examined the psychological effects of Hurricane Katrina on the lives of African Americans. They found that many of the participants reported that they felt overwhelmed by the mental health problems that their congregation and community members were bringing to them for help. The majority of participants reported a need and readiness for education and training, targeting disaster mental health-related issues. However, in most cases mental health counselors are not adequately trained to handle such events; for the most part most counselors go to workshops to better equipment themselves for such cases. In most situations victims continue to live with these burdens and never seek help; for the most part it is all summed up by “pride”. Society prides them and seeks cover from behavior health because of the stigma that is put out from others. Whatever the case may be the growing number of needed crisis counselors is astonishing, but through Walden which offers a specialization in trauma and crisis counseling in turn could help any counselor; whether it is school or mental health...
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...Business research can be described as a study in which a business or company gather data and analyzes it in order for better decision making and output. There are several steps in executing a research the first step is data collection process. There are several ways to collect data like interviews, surveys, questionnaires and databases. I’m currently employed at the Weed Army Community Hospital in the Medical Evaluation Board Department. We evaluate soldier’s medical diagnoses and process cases for medical discharge. Over the years I have counseling numerous mental health patients that are returning from deployment. Our goal is to advise and refer soldiers and family members to the appropriate sources to include, Social Work Service. Cases with extreme mental disability are soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with major sleep disorders. The problem is regardless of the psychotherapy and medication the soldiers are given they continue to have extreme nightmares of death and fear. Soldier that are diagnose with PTSD normally gets two to four hours of sleep a night. Beginning with the first step in the research process is to identifying the problem. Our dilemma was soldier Behavioral Health Care beyond Army life. Data was gathered from our Mental Health Department and Traumatic Brain Injury database. After we identify the problem a Case Review Committee meeting was conducted with the hospital Behavioral Health Providers to discuss and analyze the...
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...Excellence: Case Study Jessica Moss October 9th, 2012 The HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence originated in 1994. The program and award is named after Dr. Nicholas E. Davies who was a practicing physician and the President elect of the American College of Physicians as well as a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Improving the Patient Record. Dr. Davies passed away in a plane crash in 1991 but he dedicated his work into improving the patient record. He believed that computer based patient records needed improvement to provide better care for the patients. The Davies Award of Excellence is an award that requires the staff in the health care system applying for the award to document and assess their progress and accomplishments using a framework for thinking about the implementation process of an electronic health records system. The HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence identifies organizations use of health care information technology in four categories: public health, organizational health, ambulatory care and community health organizations. Each case study demonstrates the facilities innovation and the use of an existing application that delivers the new or improved functionality or original solutions created by the applicant enterprise. (HIMSS, 2011) In 2011, five case studies were awarded with the Davies Award. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene applied their case study and was awarded the Davies Award in the Public Health sector...
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...Tech People who are dually diagnosed with mental illness and substance abuse disorders constitute 10%-20% of homeless persons. They are heterogeneous and extremely vulnerable subgroup with complex, poorly understood needs. (Breakey, 1987; Fischer, 1990) Addressing comorbidity in the homeless population makes us look head on at the clinical, service, legal, and housing issues. My goal is to improve our understanding of this problem and what might be done to help resolve this growing problem. To help explain this comorbidity, we need to know that drug addiction is a mental illness. It is a brain disease characterized by compulsive, at times uncontrollable drug craving, seeking and using despite the terrible consequences. Despite devastating consequences behaviors that stem from drug-induced changes in brain structure and function. These changes occur in some of the same brain areas that are disrupted in other mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety, or schizophrenia. It is not surprising that population surveys show a high rate of co-occurrence, or comorbidity, between drug addiction and other mental illnesses. As awareness of the problem of duel diagnosis has grown models for integrating mental health and substance abuse treatments have begun to emerge but have not been applied to the homeless population. (Argeriou & McCarty, 1990) Approximately one third of homeless persons suffer from severe and disabling mental illnesses (Morrissey & Dennis; 1986; Tessler...
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