A5023573596- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Innovative Teaching Methods
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Venous Diseases
- Race, History, and American Society
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
- Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
- Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- History of Medicine and Tropical Health
- Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management
Georgia Southern University
2019-2021
Medical University of South Carolina
2010
Mental health-care delivery to young people with first-episode schizophrenia presents significant challenges especially in underserved areas. This chart review reveals the importance of family support as a predictor for medication and treatment adherence this vulnerable group. An unexpected disengagement rate 47% was discovered. It further discovered that receiving care telehealth lost follow-up or nonadherence. Recommendations include psychoeducation families during initial crisis,...
To develop a Theory of Change (ToC) pathway to facilitate the development multi-component intervention package supporting pressure Ulcer (PU) risk identification and management, in partnership with people Long Term Neurological Conditions (LTNC) who self-manage care live at home, their informal carers PAs.
Objective: Patients with somatic symptom disorders (SSD) are prevalent in primary care, urgent and emergency rooms present reduced quality of life, increased disability, suicidality . Criteria for SSD include (1) symptoms that cause distress disrupt life; (2) concurrent physical illness thoughts feelings disproportionate to the seriousness illness; (3) which is persistent causes suffering. The frequency general population 5% 7%; however, it 35% Because patients anxiety, depression, and/or...
This article explores the advent of Medicare, process desegregation hospitals in South, and resistance to this governmental oversight. Events at Medical College Hospital South Carolina are described as an exemplar illustrate struggle for healthcare justice Black Americans where racially integrated ended a hospital workers strike. Four hundred women walked off their jobs marched picket lines 113 days without pay before economic human rights issues were resolved. As cause racial continues...
OBJECTIVE: This practice improvement project evaluated the cost of health care services utilized by patients with comorbid mental and physical chronic conditions who were psychiatrically hospitalized but transported for symptoms that developed during their psychiatric hospitalization. METHOD: A retrospective review invoices to a regional hospital non-psychiatric inpatients revealed high costs emergency room (ER) visits from July 2016 June 2017. Medical records these seriously mentally ill...
While dysfunction of serotonin and dopamine neurotransmitters has been studied in depth, regard to the etiology mental illness, neurotransmitter glutamate its is now being explored as contributing neurodegenerative psychiatric diseases, schizophrenia, autism, depression, Alzheimer's disease. This article explains synthesis, neurotransmission, metabolism within brain subsequent that responsible for neurocognitive loss associated with several disorders.The case study will report on screening...