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L Loughrey

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PubMed1997

Patient self-mutilation: when nursing becomes a nightmare.

1. Patients who demonstrate self-wounding behaviour require behavioral, pharmacological, and psychotherapeutic interventions to meet their highly complex needs. 2. Nurses caring for patients who wound themselves will experience frustration related to the safety needs of the patients and guilt whenever an injury occurs. 3. Staff members managing the patient who wounds himself or herself need administrative support, education, and counseling to relieve guilt, personal and professional conflict, and stress.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
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The effects of two teaching techniques on recognition and use of function words by aphasic stroke patients.

The study described in this article examined two different methods to reteach reading to stroke patients with Broca's aphasia. The first method was a multisensory technique that used visual, verbal, kinesthetic, and tactile input stimuli, while the alternate method used only a visual-verbal input procedure. A single-subject alternate-treatment design was used to compare the two approaches. It was found that word recognition improved in all patients regardless of the method used. The results of this study suggest that nurses who are aware of this problem may plan a simple approach that can help the affected individual overcome the reading deficit.

Aphasia↗