Abstract St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a pediatric treatment center and research facility. They focus on cancer and other catastrophic childhood diseases afflicting children around the world. St. Jude is a world leader in developing new and improved treatments for children with cancer. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a nonprofit organization located in Memphis, Tennessee. Danny Thomas, the founder, opened St. Jude’s doors on February 4th, 1962.
The patient is a 53 year old male who presented to the ED via EMS intoxicated and reporting suicidal thoughts. The patient denies homicidal ideations and symptoms of psychosis. The patient endorses depressive symptoms including: tearfulness, isolation, and insomnia. During the time of the assessment the patient is awake, alert, cooperative, and clam. the patient reports that he had been drinking to 2 pints of alcohol earlier during the day.
He consumes 2-3 beers each evening and lives a fairly sedentary lifestyle due to his SOB and fatigue. He is on a number of cardiac medications, and without these medications he is at a greater risk for unmanaged conditions, ultimately leading to a cardiovascular event. In addition, he has a number of modifiable risk factors that if reduced, would lower his risk for
Aetna uses the Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) approach when considering a member’s eligibility for cocaine rehab and detox coverage. SBIRT is a program designed to assist physicians in determining medical
The 10-item questionnaire that will serve in assessments in early detection of excessive alcohol consumption and dependence. This tool can be used in primary care settings such as primary care doctor’s offices, and urgent clinics. This both clinician and self-administered tool inexpensive tool. Conversely despite the pros of using this assessment the answers can be altered by clients that are taking this
The policy on drunk driving has been a controversial topic for decades, whether it is to deter or punish drunk drivers. Current public policy on drinking and driving includes the blood alcohol content (BAC) standard. The BAC measures the alcohol concentration present in a person’s bloodstream. The level of alcohol concentration often serves as an indicator of how intoxicated an individual is. It is the most accurate form of alcohol impairment measurement currently exists.
1.6 Alcohol relapse Alcohol relapse is the situation in which the person is returning to the previous pattern of alcohol use usually followed by the period of abstinence. Many studies have documented high rates of relapse upto 65-80 percent in the first year of treatment among substance dependents(Vyas and Ahuja 2008).It is a perplexing situation among the substance abusers. Eventhough there are dramatic advancements in the treatment modalities, client compliance is generally poor and response to a drug or alcoholic use is a common occurrence (Kumar, 2014). The major research finding of substance dependence treatment outcome is relapse with approximately 66 percent returning to drinking by the 90th day follow-up assessment. However a variety
In 2012, 3.3 million deaths, or over 5.9 percent of all global deaths were attributed to alcohol consumption. And as we see, since 2012, these numbers still continue to increase. According to these percentages, alcoholism has become a very major problem in our generation. Yet despite the warnings, people still continue to drink and slowly harm themselves. In our day to day lives, we see people drink on social media very often.
In The Fire Next Time Baldwin informs his grandson about the living in the ghetto and how he will live and die in the there. He will never know what it is like to live a life more successful than his father’s. Due to his harsh living condition he creates a hard exterior to protect himself against the harsh environment around him, but he deep down he believes that the white men’s degrading term are true. Society’s views on black men have pushed him into a area or social status where he is supposed to be staying at.
Once a person takes a drink of either their beer, glass of wine, or a shot of hard liquor, the alcohol enters the blood stream at fast pace. Alcohol is known as a depressant because “it slows the function of the central nervous system and alters a person’s perception, emotion, and movement; vision and hearing” (Responsible party). This controlled substance has a negative connotation for its lack of responsibility. For example, you are at a party and you where the designated driver, but you end up taking a couple of shots with your buddies just so that you loosen up. Alcohol is removed from ones blood system through the process of oxidation, this process primarily happens in the liver, “…A healthy liver oxidizes pure ethanol at the rate of about 1/4 to 1/3 of an ounce per hour, which is less than 1 ounce of hard liquor…”
Alcoholism is a chronic brain disease that affects all walks of life and does not have any bounders (Gossop, Stewart, & Marsden, 2008). I choose to attend an Alcoholic Anonymous (AA) meeting since this disease is prevalent among adolescents and adults. The meeting was held in the first-floor forum at Pilgrim Congressional Church in Queens New York. The goals of the AA meeting were stated explicitly by the leader conducting the meeting. The mission of the organization is to maintain sobriety by helping alcoholics achieve recovery.
Strategic planning for retention of nursing staff using SWOT analysis. Strengths and weaknesses are often internal to organization, while opportunities and threats generally relate to external factors. For this reason, SWOT is sometimes called Internal-External Analysis and the SWOT Matrix is sometimes called an IE Matrix. The first step in SWOT is strength of the organization for retention of nursing staff. To develop a retention strategy is identifying the factors that motivate nurses to stay.
Between six and eight of every ten Vietnam Veterans seeking PTSD treatment have alcohol use problems. War Veterans with PTSD and alcohol problems tend to be binge drinkers (“PTSD and Problems with Alcohol Use”). Drinking can only do harm in
The symptoms as described by DSM-5 of alcohol intoxication are slurred speech, incoordination, impairment in attention or memory, nystagmus, stupor, and unsteady gait. Also, individuals with drugs and alcohol addictions are assessed to determine the right treatment, how the treatment will be modified, and evaluated. Therefore, assessment may occur before, during, or after a treatment period (Donovan & Marlatt,
The reported issues that accompanied most drinking appeared to be associated with those individuals that were engaging in binge drinking not just ongoing
