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Dorothea Dix Biography Dorothea Lynde Dix was born on April 4, 1802, in Hampden, Maine. She was the eldest of three children, and her father, Joseph Dix, was a religious fanatic and distributor of religious tracts who made Dorothea stitch and paste the tracts together, a chore she hated. Dorothea Dix was a social reformer whose devotion to the welfare of the mentally ill led to widespread international reforms. After seeing horrific conditions in a Massachusetts prison, she spent the next 40 years lobbying U.S. and Canadian legislators to establish state hospitals for the mentally ill. Her efforts directly affected the building of 32 institutions in the United States. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, she volunteered her services and was named superintendent of nurses. She was responsible for setting up field hospitals and first-aid stations, recruiting nurses, managing supplies and setting up training programs. Although she was efficient and focused, many found her rigid, without

Here's Management of Dissociative Disorders Dissociative disorders show, perhaps better than any other disorder, the possibility of the relevance of the theory of psychoanalysis. In three dissociative disorder, amnesia, fugue and dissociative identity disorder, sufferers exhibit behaviors that are very convincingly shows that they are not able to access the various parts of life in the past is forgotten. Therefore, there is the hypothesis that there is a huge part of their lives that direpres. Psychoanalytic therapy were chosen for dissociative disorders than other psychological problems. Goal to lift the repression into everyday law, achieved through the use of a variety of basic psychoanalytic techniques. Treatment of dissociative identity disorder. Hypnotic commonly used in the treatment of dissociative identity disorder. In general, the idea is the painful memories of the recovery will be facilitated by recreating the situation assumed torture experienced by the patient. Genera

Anemia - 10 Nursing Diagnosis According to WHO Anaemia is a condition in which the number of red blood cells or their oxygen-carrying capacity is insufficient to meet physiologic needs, which vary by age, sex, altitude, smoking, and pregnancy status. Anemia or anaemia is usually defined as a decrease in the amount of red blood cells (RBCs) or the amount of hemoglobin in the blood. It can also be defined as a lowered ability of the blood to carry oxygen. There are more than 400 types of anemia, which are divided into three groups: Anemia caused by blood loss. Anemia caused by decreased or faulty red blood cell production. Anemia caused by destruction of red blood cells. Initially, iron deficiency anemia can be so mild that it goes unnoticed. But as the body becomes more deficient in iron and anemia worsens, the signs and symptoms intensify. Iron deficiency anemia symptoms may include: Extreme fatigue Pale skin Weakness Shortness of breath Chest pain Frequent infections Headache Dizzines

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, affecting up to 70% of all people with dementia. It was first recorded in 1907 by Dr Alois Alzheimer. Dr Alzheimer reported the case of Auguste Deter, a middle-aged woman with dementia and specific changes in her brain. For the next 60 years Alzheimer’s disease was considered a rare condition that afflicted people under the age of 65. It was not until the 1970s that Dr Robert Katzman declared (rather boldly at the time) that senile dementia and Alzheimer’s disease were the same condition and that neither were a normal part of aging. Risk factors Ageing. Caucasian. Family history. Small increased risk - 3.5-fold increase if a first-degree family member is affected. It is more common in women. (67% is in women, and 55% in men, unlike other types of dementia.) Apolipoprotein E4 variant - the largest known genetic risk factor in late-onset sporadic Alzheimer's disease, but wide differences in prevalence of the genotype in populat

Nursing Care Plan for Malaria Definition Malaria is a parasitic infection of red blood cells caused by a species of Plasmodium protozoa transmitted to humans through the saliva of mosquitoes (Corwin, 2000, p 125). Malaria is an infectious disease with periodic fever, which is caused by the Plasmodium parasite and transmitted by mosquitoes similar Anopeles (Tjay & Prog, 2000). Etiology According Harijanto (2000) there are four species of plasmodium that can cause infection, namely : Plasmodium vivax Plasmodium falciparumc. Plasmodium ovale. Characteristics of Mosquitoes According Harijanto (2000) Malaria in humans can only be transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito. More than 400 species of Anopheles in the world, only about 67 were found to contain sporozoites and can transmit malaria. Anopheles mosquito breeding varies, there is in fresh water, brackish water and some are nested in a puddle of water on the branches of a large tree (Slamet, 2002, p 103). Characteristi

Endocarditis, Pericarditis and Myocarditis Endocarditis Most of endocarditis caused by viridans streptococci are microorganisms that live in the upper airway. Prior to the discovery of antibiotics, then 90-95% of endocarditis infection, caused by viridans streptococci , but since the presence of antibiotics, viridans streptococci cause infective endocarditis 50%, which is 1/3 of the source of infection. Another cause of infective endocarditis is more pathogens are Staphylococcus aureus , which causes subacute infective endocarditis. Other causes include fecal streptococci , staphylococci , gram-negative aerobic / anaerobic, fungi, viruses, yeast, and candida. Pericarditis 1) The cause of idiopathic or nonspecific. 2) Infection Bacteria: Streptococcus, staphylococcus, meningococcus, gonococcus . Viruses: coxsakie, influenza. Fungi: rickets, parasites. 3) connective tissue disorders - systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis, polyarteritis. 4) The state of

Endocarditis, Pericarditis and Myocarditis Endocarditis Endocarditis is an infection of the heart valves and the endothelial surface caused by the direct invasion of bacteria or other organisms and cause deformity of the valve blade. Causing microorganisms including bacteria ( streptococci, enterococci, pneumococci, staphylococci ), fungal, rickettsial, and viridans streptococci . Infectious endocarditis is common in the elderly may be due to decreased immunological response to infection, metabolic changes due to aging and the increase of invasive diagnostic procedures, particularly in genitourinary disease. Pericarditis Pericarditis is an inflammation of the parietal pericardium, the visceral pericardium, or both. Pericarditis is divided up; Acute pericarditis, subacute pericarditis, and chronic pericarditis. Subacute and chronic pericarditis have etiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic approaches, and management of the same. Classification of pericarditis, both clinically and t

Cardiovascular system is a system that gives facilities the transport of a variety of substances, and to the body's cells. The system consists of a driving organ called the heart, and the channel system consisting of an artery that carries blood from the heart, and veins that supply blood to the heart. The human heart is a hollow heart has two atria and two ventricles. The heart is a muscular organ that is able to push the blood to various parts of the body. The human heart is shaped like a cone and the size of a fist, located on the left hand of the chest cavity. The heart is covered by a membrane called the pericardium. The heart is responsible for maintaining the flow of blood with the help of a number of valves that make it up. To assure the continuity of the circulation, the heart contracts periodically. The heart muscle to contract continuously without experiencing fatigue. Contraction of the human heart is a myogenic contraction, the contraction begins excitatory strength of