How To Write A Case Study Patrick's Behavior

Melvin Fuller is a patient on the medical-surgical unit who was admitted during the previous evening for exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). He is an 83-year-old widower with two children who both live an hour away. He lives in a small house and is independent in his care. He has a housekeeper who comes in once a week to clean and fix some meals for him. He was brought to the hospital by his son who was visiting. His children visit him at least once a month. Mr. Fuller has COPD and type 2 diabetes. Alicia Brown is a 19-year-old nursing student in her first clinical rotation. She has been assigned to Mr. Fuller for morning care. Alicia enters Mr. Fuller’s room and notices that coffee has been spilled on his bed and

The depression is concerning as it lasts for a considerable amount of time after each worry session and takes away his pleasure in his usual activities. Because Daniel's anxiety only led him toward having heart attack like symptoms twice in the past this is not considered a consistent symptom. To be diagnosed a specific disorder, the symptoms should be reoccurring. His family showing concerns for Daniels behavior proves the validity of an ongoing illness.

Nursing-sensitive indicators are utilized in healthcare to increase quality patient care, as well as patient safety. They reflect the organization, procedure, and products of patient care. In the presented scenario involving Mr. J, nursing-sensitive indicators can be used to identify the issues that interrupted the flow of quality patient care.

While, expressing his negative opinion of drug use Flynn also accurately describes the effects of multiple drugs and the profile of drug users who are drug dependent. One huge example of drug dependence is Flynn’s father. Continually,

A quote that most describes Patrick is “After a while, his eyes lost the glazey numb look from the wine or the coffee or the fact that he had stayed up the night before. Then, he started crying. Then, he started talking about Brad."(Chbosky, May 11,1992). Patrick is a person who expresses his feeling by crying after something big and then wants to move on from it. Patrick made a big deal about this because he had been with Brad for a long time and then for Brad to ignore him made him angry and for Patrick the only way to express that is in the form of tears. Patrick had been going though a lot at this time so he used charlie to help him get through this so he was not

Members of the stabilization group are complaining about Tom's jitteriness in group sessions. They say he is constantly moving, and they are beginning to feel anxious while near him. You ask Tom to describe what he is experiencing, and he tells you he isn't sure, but he knows that since he started taking that new medication, he has not been able to sit still.

Throughout the movie, Pat recurrently displayed an elevated and irritable mood as well as three of the above symptoms, namely a decreased need for sleep, speech that is rapid, pressured, loud and difficult to interrupt, and non-stop goal-directed activity. These symptoms are accompanied by delusions of a suspicious nature, as well as hallucinations. Pat’s mood disturbance led to his hospitalization, separation from his wife, and the loss of his job

In the film, “Proof”, the main character Catherine goes through hardships after her father passes away. She can not be diagnosed with abnormal behavior because all 4 characteristics have to meet her actions. Only the maladaptive characteristic fit her actions. In order for one to be diagnosed with depression, five of the symptoms have to be present during the same two-week period and at least symptom one or two have to be involved. Also, all five letters A through E have to be present. Catherine can be diagnosed with major depression due to the criteria evident. Letter A through E were all present throughout the film for Catherine. The five symptoms involved were numbers one, two, three, six, and seven.

But at the end, miraculously, they succeeded in coming together to reestablish the harmony that they may have lost forever—and Patrick can be entirely credited for this. The past event of Marianne’s rape transformed him into an emotional, somewhat sensitive adult, enlightening him to the importance of family. At the reunion, Patrick “let his hand fall on my (Judd’s) shoulder. Brotherly, affectionate” (Oates Loc 8674), illustrating the strengthened bond between the two brothers which would have been unimaginable a decade ago. Without Patrick joining in on the new, intimate amelioration, it would have been impossible for the Mulvaneys to truly reach wholeness.

and tasked with reviewing his medical notes and past history to determine what was the most likely condition.

addicted persons encounter include, difficulty in holding jobs, maintaining stable marriages, making and keeping friends, obeying laws, and functioning as caring and responsible parents. These difficulties are related to the fact that getting and using drugs leaves little time for other activities.

He presents to the clinic with weakness, which is felt all over the body, fatigue that lasts all day and loss of appetite for the past several months accompanied with nausea, which occurs throughout the day. He says that he never feels like eating when he consumes alcohol, not even his favorite foods, and only does so because his wife asks him too. He is unclear as to when his symptoms initially began, but states that he has gotten worse in the past year. As we further investigate we find that Mr. Martin thought his symptoms were due to his stressful home environment. He is caring for his son, Mark, with a spinal cord injury from an accident while intoxicated. His mother is also living in their household and his son, Anthony, has been non-compliant with his schizophrenia medication, creating disturbances at home. He is not sure whether his weakness is due to his back pain, but he does notice that he is unable to do as much physical work as he used to. Mr. Martin says that he often self-medicates with alcohol and prescription pain killers, when obtainable, to treat

The next several paragraphs prove just how much Mary loved her husband and explain why "She loved to luxuriate in the presence of this man". However, the more reasons Mary gives for loving her husband and the more attempts she makes to please him it becomes clearer and clearer that something is wrong - Patrick is avoiding conversation and is becoming increasingly more irritated with Mary for her attempts to please to him. When Mr. Malloney cannot bear another moment of the fuss that has been created around him by his wife, he loses his nerve and tells at Mary to "just for a minute, sit down". Patrick tells his wife, which by the evidence in the text I assume is, that he is leaving her.

Discuss how an understanding of nursing-sensitive indicators could assist the nurses in this case in identifying issues that may interfere with patient care.

At the beginning of the story, the readers are presented with a strangely content housewife. Mary Maloney’s “curiously peaceful” demeanor and the fact that she was merely satisfying herself with the thinking “each minute that went by made it nearer the time he would come home” suggests that Patrick is the focus of Mary’s life, the fountainhead of joy and purpose. Consequently, Mary developed and maintained a cellophane, fabricated persona, with the center of everything being her