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• Schizoaffective Disorder Nursing Care Plan (NCP)

  
  Memoir of a Schizo — Authority: 120
  This disorder emphasizes the temporal relationship of schizophrenic and mood symptoms and is used for conditions that meet the criteria for both schizophrenia and a mood disorder with psychotic symptoms lasting a minimum of 1 month. The clinical features must occur within a single uninterrupted period of ...
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• Problems Related to Abuse or Neglect Nursing Care Plan (NCP)

  
  Memoir of a Schizo — Authority: 120
  Abuse affects all populations and is not restricted to specific socioeconomic or ethnic/cultural groups. Although “violence” means the use of force or physical compulsion to abuse or damage, the term “abuse” is much broader and includes physical or mental maltreatment and neglect that result in emotional, ...
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• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Nursing Care Plan (NCP)

  
  Memoir of a Schizo — Authority: 120
  An anxiety disorder resulting from exposure to a traumatic event in which the individual has experienced, witnessed, or been confronted with an event or events that involve actual or threatened death/serious injury or a threat to the physical integrity of the self or others. The individual’s response involved ...
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• Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder Nursing Care Plan (NCP)

  
  Memoir of a Schizo — Authority: 120
  This disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of passive resistance, expressed indirectly rather than directly, to demands for adequate social/occupational performance, with the individual viewing the future as negatively as they view the present. DSM-IV 301.9 Personality disorder NOS Passive-Aggressive ...
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• Panic Disorder Nursing Care Plan (NCP)

  
  Memoir of a Schizo — Authority: 120
  Panic attack is a discrete period of intense fear or discomfort with onset spontaneous/unpredictable or situationally bound, peaking within 10 minutes. You may read more about Panic Disorder and Phobia here:  http://www.enurse-careplan.com/2010/10/nursing-care-plan-ncp-panic-disorder.html DSM-IV PANIC ...
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• Oppositional Defiant Disorder Nursing Care Plan (NCP)

  
  Memoir of a Schizo — Authority: 120
  A pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior lasting at least 6 months, in which the child loses temper, argues with adults, often actively defies or refuses adult requests or rules, blames others, deliberately does annoying things, and swears or uses obscene language. This behavior creates ...
  5 days ago

• Obesity Nursing Care Plan (NCP)

  
  Memoir of a Schizo — Authority: 120
  Obesity is defined as an excess accumulation of body fat at least 20% over average weight for age, sex, and height. Although considered to be a type of eating disorder, obesity is a general medical condition coded on Axis III, with psychological factors that adversely affect the course and treatment of the ...
  6 days ago

• Bereavement is Sad, but its not a Depressive Illness

  
  Health Care Organizational Ethics — Authority: 101
  The status of bereavement in the next edition of the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ("DSM") is in the news again. DSM IV, first published in 1994, defines "major depression" by a constellation of symptoms. Depressed mood and/or loss of pleasure capacity ...
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• Gender Identity Disorder Nursing Care Plan (NCP)

  
  Memoir of a Schizo — Authority: 120
  Sexuality is a product of one’s genetic identity, gender identity, gender role and sexual orientation. As all of these are independent components, there is a 4 3 4 interaction that can result in 16 distinct possibilities of sexual identity. In a society in which clear differences between the sexes is the expected ...
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• Dissociative Disorders Nursing Care Plan (NCP)

  
  Memoir of a Schizo — Authority: 120
  In these disorders a disturbance or alteration exists in the normally integrative functions of identity, memory, or consciousness. The individual blocks off part of his or her life from consciousness during periods of intolerable stress. The stressful emotion becomes a separate entity, as the individual “splits” ...
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• Do I Have Bipolar Disorder?

  
  Ask the Therapist — Authority: 117
  So I had been bullied all my life, have no friends, I feel like I cant talk to anyone and that I cant trust anyone. I thought I depression but then I would burst out into an episode of high self esteem, wild, impulsive, basically I did some research and realised I fit perfectly to ‘Mania’ But then after a week or ...
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• Depressants (Barbiturates, Nonbarbiturates, Hypnotics and Anxiolytics, Opioids) Nursing Care Plan (NCP)

  
  Memoir of a Schizo — Authority: 120
  CNS depressant s are drugs that slow down the central nervous system. They are usually divided into four types: barbiturates, antianxiety agents, sedative-hypnotics, and narcotics (opioids such as morphine, heroin). CNS depressants prescribed for symptoms of anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbances are ...
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• HIGHEST PAYING HEALTHCARE JOBS

  
  Employment and Career Information — Authority: 108
  Healthcare jobs are some of the most coveted in America because they offer impressive salaries and high bonuses, in addition to providing workers with an opportunity to truly make a difference in the lives of others. Here is a rundown of the healthcare fields with the highest salaries. Thoracic Surgeons ...
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• Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type Nursing Care Plan (NCP)

  
  Memoir of a Schizo — Authority: 120
  Dementia of the Alzheimer’s type is a specific degenerative process occurring primarily in the cells located at the base of the forebrain that send information to the cerebral cortex and hippocampus. It is the most common form of dementia and is characterized by a steady and global decline. In comparison, ...
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• NCP Conduct Disorder | Nursing Care Plan

  
  Memoir of a Schizo — Authority: 120
  Conduct disorder is most distinguishable by the degree of repetitive and persistent violation of the basic rights of others. Common antisocial behaviors acted out in the home and school setting include physical aggression toward people and animals, destruction of property, lying, and theft. There is a ...
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• NCP Borderline Personality Disorder | Nursing Care Plan

  
  Memoir of a Schizo — Authority: 120
  “Borderline” has been used to identify clients who seem to fall on the border between the standard categories of neuroses or psychoses. The term has been refined to indicate a client with a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, affect, and control over impulses beginning in ...
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• Australian Psychiatrist Ian Hickies Lancet Paper Heavily Criticised

  
  SEROXAT SUFFERERS - STAND UP AND BE COUNTED — Authority: 452
  Prof Ian Hickie Things have gone belly-up down under, it seems. Psychiatrist Graham Burrows has recently been in the news for prescribing unapproved drugs to his patients, resulting in a class action lawsuit against him. Yesterday an article appeared on the subscription based online website The Australian ...
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• PTSD, whistleblowing and chemical injury: There are some human experiences that others can’t really understand

  
  Beyond Meds — Authority: 119
  "There are some human experiences that others can’t really understand. I learned a bit about that half a life ago when I developed a painful back problem that never got better, even with surgery. I learned to not talk about it, because even well-meaning responses were alienating. People would recount their own back ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bipolar Disorders Care Plan Nursing Care Plan (NCP)

  
  Memoir of a Schizo — Authority: 120
  Bipolar disorders are characterized by recurrent mood swings of varying degree from depression to elation with intervening periods of normalcy. Milder mood swings such as cyclothymia may be manifested or viewed as everyday creativity rather than an illness requiring treatment. Hypomania can actually ...
  2 weeks ago

• NCP ADHD | Nursing Care Plan

  
  Memoir of a Schizo — Authority: 120
  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is associated with inattentive, impulsive, and hyperactive behavior that is maladaptive and inconsistent with developmental level. This behavior creates clinically significant impairment in social/academic functioning. Accurate diagnosis is difficult, as symptoms resemble ...
  2 weeks ago

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