The Impact Of A Bariatric Patient On Psychosocial And Physical Well Being

Obesity in the UK is proving to be a huge strain on the NHS, as individuals tend to have multiple comorbidities associated with being overweight. Bariatric surgery has been found to be an effective way of managing the financial strain by reducing the incidence of comorbidities in individuals’ post-surgical weight loss. Factors such as Human Rights Law, the NHS constitution and the Bioethical principals for good practice point to the benefits for all morbidly obese patients to be provided with bariatric surgery, however there are further opinions to suggest this is only treating the symptom and not the cause.

This essay aims to discover and analyse adult obesity as a challenging public health issue in England as it has a detrimental effect on the society. The rationale for choosing adult obesity as a public health issue is to comprehend and develop the knowledge of obesity and its impact on individual’s health and wellbeing to better meet the needs of an obese adult in clinical practice. Obesity will be defined, its trends and the biopsychosocial factors that contribute to an individual’s health and wellbeing will be discussed along with the health inequalities. Furthermore, this assignment will highlight relevant policies and legislation aimed at addressing the health risk and needs of an obese adult. Lastly, this essay will explain the role of a nurse in both promoting and assessing of the health requirements of obese adult and then the conclusion will be drawn summarising the key points of the essay.

“Knowing Ms. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break it to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.” Her sister and husband’s friend Richard had to be careful when telling Ms. Mallard about her husband’s because it may give her problems with her heart. Ms. Mallard had to lock herself in her room and look out the window to calm down after hearing the news. She even knew that death is inevitable.

Weight loss surgery, also known as bariatric surgery is recommended by many physicians to people who are unable to benefit from traditional weight loss methods. However, choosing to undergo weight loss surgery isn’t an easy decision. It is an important decision that will drastically and permanently impact a person’s life. Therefore, before making such a significant decision, an individual should be aware of both the risks and benefits associated with weight loss surgery (McGowan & Chopra ix).

Though she was disabled, Mrs. Stevenson tried her best to save herself. Another thing that Mrs. Stevenson was wrong about, was Mr. Stevenson’s love for her as she told Sergeant Duffy, “ He’s crazy about me-adores me- waits on me hand and foot. He scarcely left me side since I took sick twelve years ago”. Later that night, when it was 11: 15, the time, when the woman was supposed to get murdered, she realized that her husband had arranged her death as she heard someone in the house. Realizing what was happening and why, made Mrs. Stevenson understand what she was doing wrong for the last twelve years of her life in bed and how she treated her husband during that time

Upon hearing the death of her husband's, Mrs. Mallard went through many different emotions. The first emotion is grief, the author tried to compare Mrs. Mallard to other women that would've responded to the news of their husbands death with "paralyzed inability" ( "she

Dalton revisits the controversial issue of whether obesity should be declared a disease or not. In the author's opinion, obesity is not a disease. With that in mind, this book will offer a sound basis for my assertion that obesity cannot be regarded a disease but a contributing factor to ill health.

She flees to her room, devastated and wanting to isolate herself. She is appalled to hear of this news, and she turns to mourning by herself. As she is thinking of what life will be like without him, he begins to imagine how free she will be. She starts to see the silver lining in the absence of her her husband, and she begins to rejoice. She will be single again, and she was very excited to experience that. As she gets out of her room to leave, shelled to herring door, and to her surprise, her husband walks through the door. She drops dead, after heaving a heart attack. The fact that she was overjoyed that her husband had died was a sign that she was of happy and flourished in her marriage, but rather felt tied down, or restricted. She would have done better if she had not gotten married, and been single and more free to do what she

In this week’s assignment, the claimant was 5'9" and weighed 370 pounds, giving her a body mass index (BMI) of 46 (a BMI of 20-25 is the ideal range for an adult, and a BMI, of greater than 40 indicates a serious weight problem and carries the greatest risk for medical complications. The patient was referred to an endocrinologist for further intervention, placed on appropriate oral medication, and given an appropriate carbohydrate-restricted diet. With ongoing telephonic support from the case manager during the initial trial of medication, the patient showed improvement. The patient regularly attended both Weight Watchers and the bariatric support group meetings, and kept a written log of her meals When the case manager suggested that she identify her

Nigel has not complied with efforts to manage his weight by conventional therapy (diet, exercise, nurse visits to help him prepare healthy meals) and one may be inclined to view his request as wishing to ‘take the easy way out’. It may be hard to establish sympathy towards someone with an illness that is so clearly self inflicted. Furthermore it questions their eligibility for treatment from an entity such as the NHS which cares for the entirety of the population from a limited pool of resources, where many of the recipients of care have fallen ill through no fault of their own. Taken to the extreme, if one where in charge of the resources and had to decide between funding bariatric surgery or funding a paediatric ward it could be easy to justify choosing the latter, as many (if not all) of the patients would be there through misfortune rather than poor self control.

The death of Victor has brought up emotional and behavioral responses from each family member. Isabelle and Victor were married for 53 years, so his death, of course, has been difficult for Isabelle and she is grieving. She quit her job at the department store because she was unable to concentrate. She can’t sleep through the night. Not only was Victor’s death traumatic, but dealing with the pancreatic cancer that led to his death was also traumatic for Isabelle and she continues to ruminate about Victor during the illness. She feels lonely and is afraid she will end up isolated and alone like the other widows in the neighbor, so she is thinking of moving in with Paul. Thoughts of her own death fill her mind.

Health risks combined with pressure to conform are sometimes too much for the obese to tolerate. Some of these people feel that they need to correct their flaws immediately. Individuals who feel a traditional diet program is too difficult or lengthy often opt for a gastric bypass, which surgically reduces the size of the stomach. However, those who elect to have this procedure are often shunned by thin individuals who imply that this surgery is an effortless escape from morbid obesity. On the contrary, as will be discussed in the context of this paper, bariatric surgery is anything but an “easy way out” (Bailey). Gastric bypass surgery is a life-altering, potentially life-threatening decision and those have such an operation demonstrate great discipline and sacrifice.

Mr. Felkins is an obese man who lives with his mother, Connie Felkins, niece, Nelly Holtzman, and her husband, Richard Holtzman. His brother Scott Felkins also lives close by. Due to Mr. Felkins size, he is unable to receive 21-day therapy at any nursing home. However, Mr. Felkins is on the waiting list for a bariatric bed at Cordova Health and Rehab.

Bariatric surgery is an operation for aiding in the weight loss of obese people by either decreasing the size of the stomach or cutting down the absorption of calories in the small intestine. People who are going or will go through bariatric surgery have been found to have mental health conditions. These mental health conditions include depression, eating disorder, and anxiety. A study was done and many patients in the midst of bariatric surgery claimed they had a mood disorder. It is unknown if these conditions are linked to postoperative effects; however, research shows that certain characteristics, for example, mental image and self-esteem, are affecting the outcomes after the surgery. Future work and investigations on bariatric surgery

Bariatric surgery is a very unique procedure in the medical field because with one operation, a person can be cured of numerous life changing diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, sleep apnea, headaches, venous stasis disease, various types of cancer, liver disease, arthritis, and much more. Bariatric surgery is the only sure and effective method to weight loss in obese patients. The first weight loss operation was performed by Kremen and associates in1954 at the University of Minnesota. Since then, many different types of bariatric surgeries have been created. Payne-DeWind developed the first variation of bariatric surgery, the Jejuno-colic Shunt, in 1963, but it quickly failed as patients experienced major complications. In 1967, Dr. Edward Mason, a physician at the University