Entries by Daphne Hanson

Diagnosis of mental illness

1.Discuss the concepts of stress, anxiety, adaptation, and homeostasis. Discuss how age, culture, and spiritual beliefs affect the diagnosis of mental illness. 2.Describe the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (5th Ed., DSM-5 as a tool to diagnosis mental illness), what is it and how is it used?

Patient information database

You are the information technology director for a large tertiary care center. You were asked to create a database that will collect patient information for the oncology department. You narrowed your database structure to either a relational or a Not Only Sequential Query Language(NoSQL) database model. The head of oncology asked that you attend a […]

Recommendation on delivery services

In this episode, the student is the manager of the Social Services Department. As part of the ethics committee for a rural 18-bed hospital, the chief executive officer  and chief financial officer ask the student to contribute to an initial discussion on the decision to continue having labor and delivery in the hospital. The student […]

Root operation codes

Joyce Morgan has just started working as a Medical Assistant for a group of Gastroenterologists . She is unsure why she needs to know and use root operation codes and asks you to explain what they mean and why there are so many to choose from, and why she needs to use them.

Girl Interrupted movie treatment

Movie” Girl, interrupted” Paragraph 1: Introduction to the movie and the depiction of mental illness in the movie (your main sentence within this paragraph will indicate what your three points are going to be.) Paragraph 2: Accuracy analysis of the movie: How is the character shown to be mentally ill? How is the illness communicated to viewers and […]

Thoracic surgery care plan

Create a care plans for a surgical patient. The patient is coming from Thoracic surgery. Use the nursing process(assessment, diagnose, planning/goals, implication, and evaluation) for the care plan and give at least five nursing diagnosis and the treatments for them.