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  2. Patient education - Wikipedia

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    A Radiographer explains an x-ray to a coal miner participating in screening. Patient education can include explaining the results of diagnostic tests. Patient education is a planned interactive learning process designed to support and enable expert patients [1] to manage their life with a disease and/or optimise their health and well-being. [2] [3]

  3. Nursing care plan - Wikipedia

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    A nursing care plan promotes documentation and is used for reimbursement purposes such as Medicare and Medicaid. The therapeutic nursing plan is a tool and a legal document that contains priority problems or needs specific to the patient and the nursing directives linked to the problems. It shows the evolution of the clinical profile of a patient.

  4. Mental health nursing - Wikipedia

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    In his 1836 publication of Treatise on Insanity, he openly stated that an established nursing practice calmed depressed patients and gave hope to the hopeless. [3] However, psychiatric nursing was not formalized in the United States until 1882 when Linda Richards opened Boston City College. This was the first school specifically designed to ...

  5. Psychosis - Wikipedia

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    The treatment of psychosis depends on the specific diagnosis (such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or substance intoxication). The first-line treatment for many psychotic disorders is antipsychotic medication, [134] which can reduce the positive symptoms of psychosis in about 7 to 14 days. For youth or adolescents, treatment options include ...

  6. Early intervention in psychosis - Wikipedia

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    Multidisciplinary clinical teams providing an intensive case management approach for the first three to five years. The approach is similar to assertive community treatment, but with an increased focus on the engagement and treatment of this previously untreated population and the provision of evidence based, optimal interventions for clients in their first episode of psychosis.

  7. Hospital-acquired pneumonia - Wikipedia

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    They defined probably pneumonia, emphasized expedite antibiotic treatment (which is known to improve survival) and drafted criteria for the hospitalization of willing patients. For initial treatment in the nursing home, a fluoroquinolone antibiotic suitable for respiratory infections (moxifloxacin, for example), or amoxicillin with clavulanic ...

  8. Brief psychotic disorder - Wikipedia

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    Brief psychotic disorder—according to the classifications of mental disorders DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5—is a psychotic condition involving the sudden onset of at least one psychotic symptom (such as disorganized thought/speech, delusions, hallucinations, or grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior) lasting 1 day to 1 month, often accompanied by emotional turmoil.

  9. Hospital-acquired infection - Wikipedia

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    HAP, or nosocomial pneumonia, is a lower respiratory infection that was not incubating at the time of hospital admission and that presents clinically two or more days after hospitalization. [49] Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is defined as HAP in patients receiving mechanical ventilation.