Early Onset Schizophrenia

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Children and adolescents with schizophrenia have more difficulty functioning in academic or work settings, and significant impairment usually persists into adulthood. They may have speech or language disorders and in some cases borderline intellectual functioning. These individuals are more likely to complete suicide attempts or die from other accidental causes. Schizophrenia is characterized by positive and negative symptoms. Positive symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, and behavior disturbance. Negative symptoms include blunted affect and attention, apathy, and lack of motivation and social interest.
Early-onset schizophrenia is a rare and severe mental illness in which children interpret reality abnormally. There are a range of problems with cognitive functioning, behavior, and emotions. Perceptions may be distorted and children or their parents may report that they have difficulty distinguishing reality. This is a diagnosis that is difficult to confirm in the early stages.
                                            The Assignment (2 pages)

  1. · Compare at least two evidence-based treatment plans for adults diagnosed with

schizophrenia with evidence-based treatment plans for children and adolescents
diagnosed with schizophrenia.
2· Explain the legal and ethical issues involved with forcing children diagnosed with
schizophrenia to take medication for the disorder and how a
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) may address those
issues.
PLEASE REMEMBER to include a title page, introduction, summary, and references
                                                             Learning Resources
Required Readings
Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.

  • Chapter      31, “Child Psychiatry” (pp. 1268–1283)

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

  • “Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders”

McClellan, J., & Stock, S. (2013). Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with schizophrenia. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 52(9), 976–990. Retrieved from http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567(13)00112-3/pdf
Giles, L. L., & Martini, D. R. (2016). Challenges and promises of pediatric psychopharmacology. Academic Pediatrics, 16(6), 508–518. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2016.03.011
Hargrave, T. M., & Arthur, M. E. (2015). Teaching child psychiatric assessment skills: Using pediatric mental health screening tools. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 50(1), 60–72. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/docview/1702699596?accountid=14872
Stahl, S. M. (2014). Prescriber’s Guide: Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology (5th ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 

Epidemiology of Health and Illness.

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Epidemiology of Health and Illness.
Transforming the Public’s Health Care Systems.
Global Health
Please read chapter 4, 5 & 7 of the class textbook and review the attached Power Point presentations.  Once done answer the following questions;
1. How does the epidemiologic triad apply to health issues we see in the hospital? What are some common diagnoses in the acute care setting? What about in the community setting? How does the epidemiologic triad differ when a nurse is providing care to someone in the community or in his home? Does the nurse have more or less control in either arena?
2. Discuss the data presented regarding obesity in America in the Ethical Connection feature on page 118.  Please review the data and discuss your feelings about the role of community health nurses in community nutrition.
3. What are some of the causes for increases in healthcare costs in recent years, as outlined in the chapter?  Brainstorm some examples that you have actually witnessed in the clinical setting. Can any of these factors be modified? What could nurses do to help cut down on costs related to the different factors?
4. Why are the causes of morbidity and mortality in other countries different than in the United States? In what ways are they the same? Why do those differences exist? What types of services & interventions are needed in less developed countries to help with their health issues?
As stated in the class syllabus please present your assignment in an APA format word document, Arial 12 font attach to the thread in the discussion board title “Week 2 discussion questions”.  A minimum of 2 references no more than 5 years old are required with 2 replies to any of your peers sustained with the proper references.  A minimum of 500 words without counting the first and reference page are required.
Text and materials:
Saucier Lundy, K & Janes, S.. (2016). Community Health Nursing. Caring for the Public’s Health. (3rd ed.) ISBN: 978-1-4496-9149-3
Publication Manual American Psychological Association (APA) (6th ed.).
2009 ISBN: 978-1-4338-0561-5

Do the figures appear three dimensional or flat?

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All of the following questions below should be answered TWICE, once for each of the following pieces of art:
Madonna and Child in a Landscape, by Cima da Conegliano
Virgin and Child Enthroned and Donor, Angels, by Pietro Lorenzetti
ASSIGNMENT:
To prepare, make a list of the characteristics of each of these styles/periods and list a couple of works of art from each style/period that best exemplifies those characteristics. If you have trouble doing this, go back and watch and read and review. If you have questions, ask me! Then, on the exam, when you are looking at and describing the unknown image you can check what you see against the characteristics of these different styles.
Always consider the following questions (in your preparation for the midterm, and when writing essays themselves):
How does the artist treat the human body?
Is the body in correct proportion or is it elongated and thin? if it’s not in correct proportion – where do you see that?
Does the body have a sense of weight or is it weightless? How can you tell?
Can you see the form of the body under the drapery? If so, where? And what is the artist doing to achieve that effect?
Do the figures appear three dimensional or flat?
Does the artist use hierarchy of scale or is the relative sizes of the figures naturalistic?
Is there an interest in human anatomy, or is there more of an interest in our spiritual nature (and not so much on our physical nature)? Or is there both? How and where do you see that?
Is the body (including the face) expressive? In what way? What emotions are expressed?
How does the artist use the figures, and their placement, and gestures and expressions to tell the story?
How does the artist treat space and light?
Is there an illusion of space (assuming this is not sculpture or architecture)?
How does the artist create an illusion of space? What techniques is he using? Foreshoretning? Linear perspective? If so – where do you see evidence of these techniques? Is there no illusion of space – in other words is the image flat looking? Or is there some illusion of space – but not one that makes sense?
How is the artist using light? Does the artist use cast shadows? If so, where do you see them? Why might the artist have used shadows? Does the artist use modeling (if so, where)?
Why did the artist make all these decisions? What are the historical factors/ ways of thinking that contributed to his decisions?
Other important questions
How is this artist’s achievement important?
How did this period differ from the periods before?
How does this work of art “fit” with the typical style of the Early Renaissance, Late Gothic etc (whatever period you are guessing)?
Provide evidence
Support your argument with evidence from the work of art. Tell me what you see and where you see it! If you also want to guess the artist and subject, that’s fine, but you should explain why and this should not be a significant part of your essays. Do not generalize! Be specific!

Inter-professional Practice & Patient Safety

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Word Limit: 2000 words
 
Aim:
The purpose of this essay is to enable you to critically evaluate current research about adverse events in the acute environment. You will examine nursing strategies that can be used to prevent adverse events in a hospital including the role of inter-professional practice in promoting patient safety.
 
This assessment item will address all three (3) learning outcomes for this course.
Task description:
For this task you need to write a 2000-word essay.

  1. Choose ONE of the following preventable adverse events options that may occur whilst a patient is in hospital:
    1. Medications errors
    2. Clinical management – failure to act
    3. Hospital acquired infection

 

  1. Write a critical evaluation of current research about adverse events in the acute environment. Note that the term critically evaluate “sometimes called critically analyse or review means to show the essence of something by breaking it down into it is components parts, examining each part in detail and explaining issues…”. It also means making connections and seeing relationships between information. The term critically evaluate also implies to weigh up strengths and weaknesses and judge the worth of the argument or position

 

  1. Your essay MUST include the following components:
  2. An opening paragraph that identifies the aim of the assignment (including ONE chosen adverse event from the list below)
  3. A definition of an adverse event
  4. A discussion of the prevalence of your chosen adverse event in an Australian hospital setting
  5. An analysis of the identified topic’s effects or consequences on the patient, patient’s family and health care system
  6. A critical evaluation of TWO nursing strategies involving inter-professional practice that may be used to prevent the chosen adverse event

 

  1. A discussion of the potential barriers in achieving the chosen identified strategies in a hospital setting
  2. A discussion about how the nurse may overcome the potential barriers in a hospital setting to promote patient safety
  3. A conclusion with a final paragraph summarising the central points of your essay.
  4. A Reference list formatted to APA6 style.
  5. Reference to a minimum of 10 journal articles no more than five years old.

 
 
Other elements:

  • Word limits for all assignments needs to be strictly adhered to. The word limit for an assessment item includes in text citations, tables and quotations.  The word limit does not include the reference list. Please note the marker will cease marking your submitted work once they have reached the allocated word limit.
  • Ensure that you use scholarly literature (digitised readings, research articles, relevant Government reports and text books) that have been published in in the last 5 years.
  • Write in the third person and use academic language
  • Refer to the marking criteria when writing your assignment. This will assist you in calculating the weightings of the sections for your assignment.