class neighborhood. The Smith’s home is clean, updated and organized. John and Jane Smith, 48 and 45 respectively, live in the home with their 18 year old son, Junior. Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith are college graduates and have been financially preparing for their son’s matriculation to college. Mr. Smith was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in the fall of 2015. Mr. Smith has recently been terminated from his job, leaving Mrs. Smith as the sole wage earner. Mrs. Smith is suffering from
Mrs. Smith was a 54-year-old, married, heterosexual, White female living in Arizona, whose primary language is English. Mrs. Smith was referred by her primary care physician, Dr. James Dell, who requested a psychological evaluation to assess the emotional and psychological function of Mrs. Smith due to her complaints of: headaches, stomachaches, and chest pain, along with depression and anxiety symptoms. Mrs. Smith’s depression and anxiety symptoms appeared about 3 months ago when she changed jobs
Running Head: PROVIDING END CARE Terminal Breast Cancer Patient Community Nurse Care A. Perception about Quality of Life and Health Promotion A nurse's or caregiver's own perception will certainly affect the care she will provide to a dying patient. She needs to accept that death is a certainty and, therefore, unavoidable. But the kind or manner of death one will go through is not certain and can thus be controlled (Hess, 2009). Statistics say that at least half of all American adults die a
Overall, Mr. Smith scored and assertive score of negative four. Though that is considered within the normal range for the Rathus Assaimsertiveness Scale discussed in the text book used for class, there are still some concerns regarding the state of the client. Through Mr. Smith’s survey there seems to be an overwhelming theme of him feeling less assertive than everyone else. Furthermore, this should be a concern in regards to his attempts in seeing his child. This could also have influence on his
Mrs. Smith gave notable effort and concentration during the test. She appeared to put forth adequate effort. She gave no evidence that she was presenting herself in an unrealistic positive or negative manner. With objective measures, such as the MMPI-2, the client’s response style revealed that she was open to the test and showed no indication of lying, however the results showed that Mrs. Smith was reluctant in her willingness to disclose personal information. The consistency scales of VRIN and
The main characters in the movie, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, are Jefferson Smith, his secretary Clarissa Saunders, the senior senator from Smith’s state, Joseph Paine, and a newspaper magnate by the name of Jim Taylor. Jefferson Smith is in charge of the Boy Rangers and is avery patriotic but politically inexperienced man. His secretary Clarissa Saunders has lived and worked in Washington for some time and has become disillusioned with politics and tells Smith to go home, that a man like him has
Recommendations for Mr. Smith Treatment Based on the Evaluation conducted on Mr. smith, it is with my greatest of opinions that things should go as follows; when it comes to the victim there seems to be no risk of Mr. smith trying to reestablish contact with them at all and hence no need for a stay away order to be placed. This is based on the fact there is such a low risk of him reoffending with the same victim not even a temporary stay away order needs to be put in place at best, as for his mental
In Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, a naïve Jefferson Smith sets off for Washington D.C. as a United States Senator, where he learns that politics is not as transparent as it may seem. Released in 1939, one of the most successful years for film, Mr. Smith became a smash hit, easily becoming the second largest blockbuster of that year. However, 1939 was also the year World War II had started, and coupled with the war’s association with the Great Depression, the hit film was bound to cause
physical assessment upon admission, and palliative care unit admission assessment. PART A: Nursing Case 1. Could Mr. Smith’s culture influence his pain assessment? Why? What strategies could you employ to ensure that you are adequately addressing Mr. Smith’s pain? Mr. Smith is an indigenous Australian i.e. an individual of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent. As an indigenous Australian, Mr. Smith culture has influenced his pain assessment given the role of culture in healthcare. Actually, it
I am going to discuss an eighty two year old woman who I am going to call Mrs Smith (her name has been changed to protect her identity). Mrs Smith is the middle of five children, who has lived all her live in the South of England. She married at nineteen and had four children, all of whom are now grown up, happily married and with children of their own, giving her ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Mrs Smith’s husband died in 1998 and she has lived on her own ever since. In this essay