Assignment Objectives: 

Identify and select appropriate interventions including diagnostic tests and nursing interventions. 

Analyze physiological and psychological responses to illness and treatment modalities

Purpose: Examine case studies related to neurologic disease and answer the assigned questions. This assignment should help refine your clinical/critical thinking skills.

Assignment Description: 

Describe the pathophysiology of extradural and subdural hematomas. 

• Identify the surgical emergency and provided rationale for the choice.

Describe the most likely type of head injury and outline an appropriate treatment plan. 

Your answer must follow APA 7th edition format. 

Submit the answer to this assignment area.

• Patient 1 – Two individuals come to the emergency department with head injuries. One, 25 years old, has just been in a motor vehicle accident (MVA) and has a temporal lobe injury. The other, 65 years old, has increasing confusion after a fall that happened earlier in the week.

a. Differentiate the pathophysiology of extradural hematoma and subdural hematoma.

b. Identify the patient in the above scenario requiring immediate emergency surgical intervention and provide rationale for your choice.

Patient 2 – An 38 year old was driving his 1970 Chevy Corvette to a Milwaukee Brewers baseball game when a deer jumped out in front of him on the highway. He swerved his car and hit a telephone pole instead. His head hit the windshield and he suffered severe head trauma.

a. Describe the most likely specific type of head injury he suffered.

Instructions

Research is expensive, so finding funding sources is a critical piece of the ‘conducting research’ puzzle. Your assignment is to use the Grants.gov website to search for a grant that would fund research in an interest area of your choice. In addition to finding the grant, write up a narrative that provides the following information on the announcement you chose. Your write up must include:

What your interest area is

Funding opportunity number and title

• Include URLs for the grants.gov announcement and full award information
• Identify the grant making agency (If NIH, also include which institute)
• Summarize the purpose of the funding opportunity
• Provide the posting date, application due date, review dates, earliest start date for funding if awarded, and announcement expiration date (If ‘standard’ date, determine your dates using the funding agency’s tables for the current cycle)
• Provide how much funding is being offered
• Provide funding timeline
• Provide any named contacts including their title and contact info for the announcement
• Why you chose this grant and how it fits with your interest area.
• Your grant can come from any grant making agency, but your interest area and purpose of the funding opportunity must be to address a health related issue. So, grants for improved roadways from the Department of Transportation would not be acceptable, but if the Department of Transportation has a grant for research into reducing drunk driving fatalities, that would be acceptable.

Labelling Theory:

Here is your assignment that will be due by before class in the post/discuss Tuesday 4/19/20. and Please read theory article(s) assigned and then find out information on the theory assigned to. Here is what you will need to do:

Share a Theory

For the theory/perspective you are assigned:

Provide an overview including

Who developed the theory/perspective and when

The primary tenets/points of the theory

Is it currently being used?

Your critique – what you think is useful/appropriate, not useful /not appropriate, who would this theory/perspective include, who might be excluded. How relevant is. You can apply it to your discipline

Please make sure your sources are related to gerontology – some of the theories might be used with other populations but this must be specific to gerontology. I have assigned each person a theory/perspective:

You can make use of search engines that the library uses or Google Scholar or if there is a different one that you prefer. Be sure to use citations. If you have questions please let me know – although this coming week is spring break and I will not always be available. You can make use of search engines that the library uses or Google Scholar or if there is a different one that you prefer. Be sure to use citations. If you have questions please let me know. See content for article

The animal-assisted therapy is rapidly integrated as a supplemental treatment for physical and cognitive recovery and rehabilitation practices. This approach involves trained animals that assist patients during physical and cognitive exercises and provide emotional support to encourage patients. Despite showing promising results as an extra care service, animal-assisted treatment is an unexplored medical and scientific phenomenon.

Conventional physical therapy encompasses recovery activities to assist patients in regaining physical functions. The animal-assisted therapy suggests that pets support patients by following, cheering, and encouraging them during the rehabilitation process (Fontaine, 2019). Such a practice is widely used in children’s care services to create a psychologically comfortable and secure environment.

Nonetheless, animal-assisted therapy shows little impact on physical recovery. Denzer-Weiler & Hreha (2018) indicates that animals act as a distractor from pain and treatment inconveniences. Clinicians have conducted a trial among patients who underwent physical therapy and determined that patients with animal-assisted therapy showed less alertness and anxiety (Denzer-Weiler & Hreha, 2018). However, these patients still required complete physical treatment to recover from their disease.

From this perspective, animal-assisted therapy shows prominent opportunities in cognitive therapy. Rodrigo-Claverol et al. (2020) concluded that animal-assisted therapy significantly impacts rehabilitation speed among patients with cognitive disorders. Their study confirmed that patients supported by animals showed better results and higher confidence during cognitive assignments and tests completion (Rodrigo-Claverol et al., 2020).

Purpose:Analyze and apply critical thinking skills in the psychopathology of mental health patients and provide treatment and health promotion while applying evidence-based research.Scenario:

C.Z. is a 20-year-old Caucasian male who is in his second year of college. He is seeking treatment due to persistent fears that campus security and the local police are tracking and surveilling him. He cites occasional lags in his internet speed as evidence that surveillance devices are interfering with his electronics. His intense anxiety about this has begun getting in the way of his ability to complete schoolwork, and his friends are concerned – he says they have told him, “you’re not making sense.”

C.Z. occasionally laughs abruptly and inappropriately and sometimes stops speaking mid-sentence, looking off in the distance as though he sees or hears something. He expresses concern about electronics in the room (phone, computer) potentially being monitored and asks repeatedly about patient confidentiality, stating that he wants to be sure the police won’t be informed about his treatment. His beliefs are fixed, and if they are challenged, his tone becomes hostile.

Questions:

Remember to answer these questions from your textbooks and NP guidelines. At all times, explain your answers. 

Discuss the etiology, course, and the structural/functional abnormalities of schizophrenia. 

How would you address this psychopathology when assessing or treating a patient diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia?