Durham University (DUT)

The Chimo Project concept was founded in 1999 by Dennis Anderson who, at that time, was the President of the Canadian Mental Health Association in Alberta. The Chimo Project is named after Dennis’s animal friend “Chimo,” a Blue Heeler/Labrador cross. Because Dennis has personally experienced the psychological benefits of human-animal interactions, he aspired to obtain evidence that animals may be beneficial in the treatment of persons with mental health concerns. The na...

INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE You are welcome to this interesting specialty nursing courseoffered inthe general nursing curriculum. The course focuses on the study of mental health and psychiatric nursing as part of general nursing and it is designed to provide you the opportunity of applying the nursing sciences in the care of patients suffering from psychiatric illnesses. This course will broaden your knowledge and skills needed for meeting the ever changing needs of psychiatric clients/patients...

“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration” Hermann Hesse, “Demian” Dear readers, our peers and teachers, who read this diary, d...

Despite nearly a thousand distinct forms of therapy, no single model of treatment has emerged as sufficiently compelling to become the chosen model of care. There is scant agreement on how best to understand human nature and the development of personality, what constitutes the origin of symptom formation, why the role of the therapist differs markedly between theories, or how best to determine the most appropriate course of treatment for a specific condition or injury. Consider such perv...

Schizophrenia is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide; psychiatric disorders can result in impairments of perception, poor self-care, and decreased performance in activities of daily living. Treatment and nursing care are vital options for clients to improve their signs and symptoms, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The planning of nursing care for individual schizophrenic clients is essential and will help them have a satisfactory quality of life. Current nursing shoul...

We are often asked how we came to write the Care Plan books. In the late 1970s we were involved with some publishing efforts that did not come to fruition. In this work we had included care plans, so ensuing discussions revolved around the need for a Care Plan book. We spent a year struggling to write care plans before we realized our major difficulty was the lack of standardized labels for client problems. At that time, we were given a list of nursing diagnoses from the Clearinghouse for Nu...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION TO CONCEPT OF MENTAL HEALTH / ILLNESS The concepts of mental health and mental illness are culturally defined. Some cultures are quite liberal in the range of behaviors that are considered acceptable, where- as others have very little tolerance for behaviors that deviate from the cultural norms. A study of the history of psychiatric care reveals some shocking truths about past treatment of mentally ill individuals. Many were kept in control by means that were c...

The Effects of Nurses Practicing the HeartTouch Technique on Hardiness, Spiritual Well-being, and Perceived Stress Publication No._____________ Marsha Jelonek Walker, Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin, 2004 Supervisor: Gayle Acton This quasi-experimental study was conducted to test the effects of nurses practicing the HeartTouch technique on hardiness, spiritual well-being, and perceived stress, as compared to the comparison group who did not practice the HeartTouch technique...

ACADEMIA SUMMARIES Nursing Practice Test Remediation: Essential for Nursing Student Success The original paper contains 14 sections, with 9 passages identified by our machine learning algorithms as central to this paper. Paper Summary SUMMARY PASSAGE 1 Introduction Nursing students will take hundreds of tests throughout their academic career to evaluate their ability to practice safely and effectively as a bedside nurse. However, if such students are to take such tests effectively, ...

Lecture 1