Level 4 Home Case Study Summary

A faith-based foster care facility focused on family values and on keeping siblings groups together while in foster care, have a strict policy on ethics and family values. An employee, who we will call, “Sara”, worked at the facility for 3 years and had great reviews and promotions. She was experiencing some marital issues that did not affect her job performance. Her husband was friends with the Executive Director and would go on fishing trips together. They are not close friends, as they meet through Sara; however, like I mentioned they would go on outings.

Feinstein claimed she "heard the door close" and "the unmistakable shots." She opened the door to Milk's office, "saw his body" and "tried to get a pulse, but could not." Psychiatrists with Schmidt told jurors that Dan White was so depressed and sleepless, that he lacked the capacity to convict him of first-degree murder. This defense, called a diminished capacity defense, also known as "the Twinkie defense" after psychiatrist Dr. Martin Blinder said that White might have been "gorging himself on Twinkies." And according to Blinder, research suggests that junk food binging can affect your mental states.

Officer Stacker who informed this clinician, Ms. Martin reported having an altercation with her mother because she told her she could not eat the pop-tarts for dinner. He reports she stated to him, "I don 't want to live." Ms. Martin was confronted about this statement and she states, "It 's not like I want to kill myself, I just don 't want to have to deal with my mother anymore." Ms. Martin appears tearful during assessment. She expressed feeling of depression as feelings of hopelessness, tearfulness, Insomnia, sadness, and anger.

The plaintiff lives in Michigan with her husband and children and was undergoing marital difficulties. She had intended to file for divorce. December 6, 1963 the defendant appeared at her home and introduced himself as “Dr. Wolodzko.” He had never met the plaintiff or husband prior to the visit and he stated that the husband had called him. The plaintiff testified that the defendant told her that he was there to just ask about the husband’s back and that he never told her he was a psychiatrist.

Her Tutsi family consist of her parents and her three brother. She continues to discuss her education eventually up to the university she attended in addition to the obstacles she faced as a Tutsi before the genocide. Once the genocide began, she got separated from her family, who were all in Rwanda except for Amiable one of her brothers that was studying abroad. Through the conflict, she ended up taking refuge in the tiny bathroom of Pastor Murizini’s house along with seven other women for 91 days while atrocities were occurring right outside the walls of this room. During her stay in the bathroom, Immaculée dedicated her time to praying to strengthen her connect with God and to forgive the killers as well as she teaches herself English.

Once outside the store, Till had even whistled at the cashier, something not acceptable for African-Americans to do towards whites at this time. Talk had spread around the town, and Carolyn’s husband, Roy Bryant, had just returned home from a trip to Texas. Bryant then heard what had happened to his wife, and he quickly demanded to know who had done it. Roy asked Carolyn what had happened, but she denied that any confrontation between the two had occurred. Realizing that her denial angered her husband, Carolyn finally confessed to Roy about what had taken place.

Instead of dealing with his emotions, Luis becomes reckless and ends up caught breaking and entering. While serving some of his time helping his dad at the junkyard, he comes across a girl, Naomi, who wanders into the junkyard looking for a hubcap. It’s an experience dealing with the grief of his mother outside of Naomi’s house that changes him and enables him to not only deal with his feelings of loss of his mother but to also do a good deed for Naomi. Luis’ character is able to complete a good deed only once he confronts his feelings he’s pushed down for three

Henry’s personality has changed; he has become depressed and withdrawn. “When he came home, though, Henry was very different.” (Erdrich____) Furthermore, Henry has lost interest in the car. “Henry had not even looked at the car since he’d gotten home.” (Erdrich____) This act shows that they are moving apart from one another. In a conversation between Lyman and his mother, there is the mention of the hospital being a body shop. His mother says “they don’t fix people in those places” (439), and Lyman says “then I thought about the car” (439).

One day, after Connie’s parents left to a family barbeque, Arnold shows up at Connie’s house asking her to join him for a ride. After denying his request, Arnold becomes hostile and threatens to harm her family if she calls the police. Connie attempts to make a call but fails which results in her leaving with Arnold and the story ending. This story is important since it shows how girls need to be more careful and how the minds of people have changed

Some of the discharge instructions could be retained or lost in their memory once the patient Is discharged from home. There are times when after the patient is discharged from the hospital, the patient sometimes calls back to the nursing station with questions concerning their discharge medications or instructions. I believe if there was a hospital discharge hotline staffed by registered nurses for the patient to call after discharge, this would help make their transition easier from the hospital to at home setting. This will ensure the patient and family member questions are answered and more time has been dedicated to the patient or caregiver over the phone for help with discharge. “As a continuous process, discharge planning starts earlier and continues later and involves reaching out to both health care professionals and family caregivers along the entire continuum of a patient’s care” (Robeznieks, 2017, p. 40).