Sick Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

CRITICAL REVIEW OF ‘SICK AROUND AMERICA’

According to the article, “Sick around America” by the Frontline, the number of uninsured in the United States of America is increasing by the day. This saddening situation can be attributed to the deteriorating economic situation in the country. The country is currently under a declining economic state that is leading to a scenario of massive job losses through lay-offs and job-closures. The economy being the pillar supporting all economic activities in the country has in turn negatively affected the health system, particularly the Insurance sector. Frontline reports that the private insurance system fails to cover close to 46 million Americans, ...

Introduction

In the discipline of nursing, professional advancement and development models are often used as frameworks for recognizing and acknowledging nurses’ clinical expertise, especially the nurses who provide direct care to patients (Gentile, 2012). Most of the earlier models revolved around the tasks that nurses were expected to become familiar with and master as their careers progressed. However, subsequent models went beyond the element of tasks and incorporated elements of leadership, continues education and reflective practice (Gentile, 2012). One of these models is Benner’s Novice to Expert model. This model applies the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition and describes ...

Plato looks at pleasure as a source of delight and sensual enjoyment. In his work ‘Gorgias’, Plato talks of Socrates, and makes him relay his views. His concept is that things are termed beautiful based on the pleasure derived from them or their use. In the same way, the lack of pleasure from an item determines its lack of beauty. Plato classifies pleasure into two categories. There are those pleasures that lead to good ends, and there are those pleasures that are purposed only for fulfilling desires. Therefore, there are good pleasures and bad pleasures. Plato holds that the methods, ...

Introduction and overview

According to conventional wisdom, the more the diagnosis, and especially early diagnosis, the better health and medical care treatment and management one is likely to receive, and in return the less the mortality rates. Apparently, this is not the case, according to one Dr. Gilbert Welch et al, in his book, ‘over- diagnosed making people sick in the pursuit of health’ who believes that more and more diagnosis leads to excessive treatment and that can actually have a negative impact on the patient’s health. This is because it makes people who are healthy feel less healthy and this can ...

1. Introduction
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act popularly known as Obama Care refers to the Obama administration healthcare reforms. These reforms were enacted in the year 2010 though it is projected that full implementation of Obama care would be achieved in the year 2014. Unlike portrayal by some American leaders, Obama care was a collaborative effort between Republicans and Democrats as they had done so many times in healthcare reforms. Obama care has been the source of a heated public debate in the past two years and especially in run up to the just concluded elections. Proponents of ...

Analysis - Giovanni Boccaccio, "The Onset of the Black Death"

Boccaccio's Decameron is a masterpiece of early 14th century European literature; its bawdiness and its sheer wit are a wonderful, funny indicator of what life was like in 14th century Italy. However, the central framing device of the book itself - the Black Plague, which ravaged Europe around the time of the book's setting and publication - plays a somber but vital role in this important work. The importance of the plague to the story is no less evident than in the introduction, which demonstrates the awesome power of the sickness. Boccaccio's account of the plague during the time it hit Florence ...

Franz Kafka led a very complex life in the short amount of time he lived. A lot of critics love to make the probably true personal connections between Gregor and Franz in “The Metamorphosis,” but these critics always seem to forget two pertinent facts in addition, the work was first drafted well before he had any symptoms of tuberculosis, and during the beginning of the war, several revisions were made to the work before Kafka released it. The idea that his experience with TB has to do with the book in any way, usually the primary argument of literary ...

Franz Kafka led a very complex life in the short amount of time he lived. A lot of critics love to make the probably true personal connections between Gregor and Franz in “The Metamorphosis,” but these critics always seem to forget two pertinent facts in addition, the work was first drafted well before he had any symptoms of tuberculosis, and during the beginning of the war, several revisions were made to the work before Kafka released it. The idea that his experience with TB has to do with the book in any way, usually the primary argument of literary ...

In 2006, during winter, the Electrolux Company shut down the biggest refrigerator company in the United States, and shifted it to Juarez, Mexico in pursuit of a cheaper workforce. The company had employed approximately three thousand employees, and the consequence of the shutdown was greatly felt in the lives of these workers. Their lives were turned into disarray considering they had lived a comfortable life characterized by lovely homes and holiday vacations before shutting down of the Electrolux firm.
Because of unemployment, many of the employees succumbed to a stroke, hypertension, and even committed suicide because external life events ...

Chapter 5

According to the first scenario that is persons who have high cholesterol levels, the characteristics of the sick role does not apply. This is because in as much as the person has high cholesterol levels the person is not sick of heart disorders and therefore not exempted from the normal social roles in society are exempted from the normal social roles in the society (Weitz,2016). Looking at our second case persons who have genes that show high chances of developing breast cancer are not responsible for the condition in which they are. In our second case, the characteristics ...

Barbara Ehrenreich’s presents a clear and concise account of the methods that millions of American uses to survive the economic struggles in American. In addition, the 2001 book, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America” analyzes how individuals survive on minimum paying jobs. Ehrenreich postulates that even though these individuals work under poor economic conditions, there is a strong “work ethic” present. But, this work ethic does not help to provide the basic necessities of transportation, food, and shelter. For those individuals who work in hotels, restaurants, retail stores, and a number of other service jobs the wages are not ...

Discussion Question

Discussion Question
Based on the case presented in DQ 1, the following is a clinical impression of the client (Holly) using the 5 Axis techniques.

Axis 2 ---No condition or diagnosis
Axis 3---The client reports that often, she experiences anxiety when she thinks about her former husband and their daughter. She reports that when this happens, she cannot sleep adequately and losses appetite and this causes her to feel sick, forcing her to skip work. The client says that when she is not thinking about her ex-husband and daughter, she is well and relaxed. The client adds that ...

Hamad General Hospital

Emergency Department
Observation on our Emergency Department
Points of possible improvement
INTRODUCTION
I am presenting this document in a preliminary format of possible a larger one which could contain an extensive observation I have worked as a physician in the last 2 years in the department of emergency at Hamad General Hospital. I have noticed that the hospital administration has emphasized a great deal of weight on improvement of the working standards and condition. The hospital has in the recent trying to fall in the right path in order to acquire the JCI accreditation.
I am forwarding these ...

Hospital Acquired Infections

A fact that emerges from the events in the video is that healthcare associated infections are a threat to the health and safety of both the staff and patients in the hospital. Familiar Healthcare associated diseases such MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), bloodstream poisoning and surgical site infections are highly contagious diseases that require special treatment and care in prevention.
The cost associated with treatment of such diseases is high because it requires close monitoring of the patient in the intensive care unit. The doctors transferred the patient (Whitney Rose) to the intensive care unit after acute organ failure. This ...

In the 20th century, lesbians created their own identities over time. Just like in other societies, lesbians formed rules and acceptable and unacceptable behaviors in their groups or communities. Lesbians needed a community just like the other people in the society. Although lesbianism occurred even in the olden days, most women did not think of themselves as particular types of people based on their behaviors. This is because; sexual identity only appeared in the 20th century after the coming of the sexologists (Art#1). Lesbians have created identities for themselves and their communities because when they came out as lesbians, they ...