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• Does Team Nursing work?
• Age-Related Exclusions and Limitations on an APD Diagnosis
• WHAT IS ANTI-SOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER? Diagnostic Criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Avoiding or Challenging a Diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder
• After initial recovery from SCI, there are many potential bladder management and training issues.
• Initial Bladder Management after SCI
• AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA (HYPERREFLEXIA): TREATMENT

Does Team Nursing work? Posted: 15 Sep 2010 09:05 AM PDT Team nursing is the polite term for task allocation. It completely destroys all lines of accountability and responsibility as no individual nurse has both control of and responsibility for the care of any individual patient. Team nursing consists of dividing the nursing workforce into two groups and then treating one group (staff nurses ) as too important ever to do any manual labour whilst treating the oShare this Post[?]

Age-Related Exclusions and Limitations on an APD Diagnosis Posted: 15 Sep 2010 09:02 AM PDT A. The Defendant Must be at Least Eighteen Years of Age. The diagnosis should not be made if the defendant is under age eighteen. Generally speaking, “the definition of a personality disorder requires an early onset and long-term stability.”16 Prior to age eighteen, personalities are often not well-developed, and problematic traits observed during adolescence may disappear during early adulthood.17 AShare this Post[?]

WHAT IS ANTI-SOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER? Diagnostic Criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder Posted: 15 Sep 2010 08:48 AM PDT According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition ["DSM-IV"], “[t]he essential feature of Antisocial Personality is a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood.”13 DSM-IV provides a number of criteria that must be met before an evaluator should conclude that a patient has APD:Share this Post[?]

Avoiding or Challenging a Diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder Posted: 15 Sep 2010 08:42 AM PDT It’s an all-too-familiar scenario in capital litigation. The prosecution moves for a psychiatric evaluation to assess a defendant’s capacity to stand trial and criminal responsibility. The state evaluators review incident reports of the offense as well as the defendant’s adult and juvenile criminal record–if any–interview the defendant and perhaps a family member or two, and possibly aShare this Post[?]

After initial recovery from SCI, there are many potential bladder management and training issues. Posted: 15 Sep 2010 03:22 AM PDT The following are some practical matters, collected from experts in the field. * Intermittent catheterization training for the patient and their significant other/caregiver. o At this point of recovery, intermittent catheterization is learned as a self-care procedure. The patient‘s exposure to bacteria is much less at home, than in the hospital. Therefore, self-catheterization is often carried oShare this Post[?]

Initial Bladder Management after SCI Posted: 15 Sep 2010 03:19 AM PDT The immediate and early effects of SCI on bladder function are quite different from those that follow recovery from the initial injury. During the initial phase of spinal cord injury, the patient is experiencing “spinal shock.” Basically, spinal shock is the result of swelling of the spinal cord. This swelling causes the inhibition of all reflexes below the level of the injury, making the bladder “Share this Post[?]

AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA (HYPERREFLEXIA): TREATMENT Posted: 15 Sep 2010 03:12 AM PDT Treatment of autonomic dysreflexia must be initiated quickly to prevent complications. * Remain in a sitting position, but do a pressure release immediately. You may transfer yourself to bed, but always keep your head elevated. * Since a full bladder is the most common cause, check the urinary drainage system. If you have a Foley or suprapubic catheter, check the following: o Is your drainage fullShare this Post[?]

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