Carrie Williams has been admitted to the Psychiatric Unit at Bayshores Treatment Facility. She is eight-and-one-half months pregnant and in a manic state.

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CLINICAL CASE: # 3

Carrie Williams has been admitted to the Psychiatric Unit at Bayshores Treatment Facility. She is eight-and-one-half months pregnant and in a manic state. She has not slept for three days, is hyperactive and hypervoluble. When you come on duty, she is running all over the Day Room, jumping from chairs and standing on tables saying to everyone: “I am Cicely Tyson and I will perform for you. My agent wants you to listen to me and come to see my movies. I’m going to Hollywood and if you treat me right I will take you along.”

Along with several other nurses, you decide the patient must be placed in seclusion for her protection and the safety of the fetus. Also, she is disrupting the Unit and upsetting the other patients. Tension in the Day Room is very high as Mrs. Williams climbs over the back of a sofa and almost falls over a table.

After being placed in seclusion, the patient rolls on the floor and bounces herself off the walls with her protruding stomach. The psychiatrist is notified and orders that liquid Haldol (an appropriate dosage for the patient) be injected into the patient’s sealed juice containers and that she be encouraged to drink the juice. As the nurse working with this patient what would you do? 

 Select one of the following actions and write a 200 – 300 word answer to explain your actions.  Refer to your textbook and the syllabus to obtain information on psychiatric patient rights.  This is not an opinion paper, your answer should be backed up with information you have obtained from your textbook ( USE OUTSIDE SOURCE ).

QUESTIONS:

CHOOSE ONE, WHICH EVER YOU CHOOSE

  1. Inject the Haldol into the patient’s juice and encourage her to drink it.
  2. Tell the physician if he wants the medication injected into the patient’s juice without her knowledge – he can do it.

write a journal/discussion post about substance abuse/addiction.

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For this assignment, please write a journal/discussion post about substance abuse/addiction. 

Choose ONE of the following options and write a one page 

1.  Research online (AA, Narcotics Anonymous, or similar addiction type of meeting)

2.  Select a nursing journal article on addiction.  This MUST be from a journal article. 

Summarize the meeting or journal article. 

Among the ironies of the modern age is this: most of us have much less personal experience with death than did our grandparents, but most of us have seen more “deaths” than our grandparents.

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TOPIC: Learning about death through television

Among the ironies of the modern age is this: most of us have much less personal experience with death than did our grandparents, but most of us have seen more “deaths” than our grandparents. How is this possible? Television! The regular fare of TV includes murders, suicides and stories of fatal illnesses. Some are fictionalized in TV drams, others are covered in the news, and yet others appear in animated shows. For most of us, television is where we learn about death, but what do we learn?

PREPARING TO WRITE:
Review this information, your Paper Grading Rubric and the syllabus information in BLACKBOARD.
Read Chapters 1, 2 and 3 in the class textbook.
Schedule yourself to watch and take notes on 2 types of American media.
One hour of news on television. This one hour MUST include a story about death. If the newscast you watch does not have any stories about death, you MUST watch more news until there is a story.
One hour of a fictional drama on television. Pick a drama that includes a death in it. If the episode you watch does not have any deaths, you MUST find a drama that does (e.g., NCIS).
Watch the video in Blackboard featuring Melissa Manchester from the SUNY Canton Writing Center and Kaitlyn Patenaude from the Southworth Library on how to cite and reference and how to find legitimate research resources.
Consider meeting with someone from the Writing Center and library to help you.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITING ASSIGNMENTS #1 and #2 (50% of course grade)

DUE DATES:
Writing Assignment #1 (Rough Draft with citations and reference list) due by Saturday, June 15, 2019, 11:59 pm.
Begin writing your Rough Draft: 4 page maximum using the guidelines below. Do NOT go over 4 pages (not including reference list, title page, and any appendices) or the entire paper may be rejected. Write concisely and remember that quality is more important than quantity.

WRITE AN INTRODUCTION (1 page or less). Tell your reader what you learned. Include a brief summary of what you watched, answering “who, what, when, where, how and why.” For example, explain how the deaths occurred, how they were portrayed, the reactions of characters, etc. Do NOT waste time and space with a verbatim script of each show you watched.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE PORTRAYAL OF DEATH IN EACH FORMAT (1 page or less). Demonstrate to the reader how you came to learn what you learned. If you need space, shorten your introduction and/or your conclusion. Remember to cite any sources you use (including the class textbook) in the body of the paper.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST WHAT YOU’VE SEEN ON THE SHOWS WITH WHAT YOU ARE LEARNING ABOUT DEATH IN YOUR CLASS MATERIALS, WITH YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF DEATH AND INFORMATION FROM A SCHOLARLY SOURCE (See above). (1 page or less). Consider how the target audience(s) for the show, the show’s sponsors and whether because the show appears on cable television or on “regular” television might impact the depiction of death. Are there any other reasons you can think of that might impact how death is depicted in each format? You should be concentrating most on this part of the paper.

WRITE YOUR CONCLUSION (1 page or less). End your paper with a strong conclusion.

PROVIDE YOUR FINAL REFERENCE LIST IN CORRECT APA FORMAT (not counted in the page count). This is on a new page following the end of your paper.

Every citation you use in the body of your paper must have full referencing information here. If you read something but did not cite it in the body of your paper, it does NOT get referenced at the end of your paper. If you DID cite something in your paper, you MUST reference it here.
Writing Assignment #2 (Final Paper, final citations and final reference list) due by Wednesday, June 26, 2019, 11:59 pm. Writing Assignment #2 has the same requirements as Writing Assignment #1: Rough Draft, but you must have corrected the mistakes pointed out to you in the Rough Draft and taken the time to review the paper using Grammarly.com, consulting with the Writing Center, and doing a careful review. Do not simply re-submit your uncorrected rough draft. This will be considered a non-submission and you will receive a “0” for this assignment.

War of the worlds

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Report Issue

Overview

On Halloween eve in 1938, there was an adaptation of H.G. Well’s 1898 novel “War of the Worlds” on the radio series “Mercury Theatre of the Air”.  Orson Welles produced, hosted, and acted in this series, which adapted mystery, science fiction and other drama for radio. Welles aired the 1898 Martian invasion novel (War of the Worlds) in the style of a radio news program. For people who missed the opening disclaimer, the program sounded like a real news report!

The production was scripted in the form of fake news flashes that repeatedly interrupted musical recordings. The first news flash reported strange activity sighted on Mars. The next interruption was an urgent message saying a meteor had crashed near Grover’s Mills, New Jersey. Then came a “live” report from the New Jersey site saying it wasn’t a meteor at all but Martians with death-ray guns who had just killed one thousand people. Remember, all of this was scripted and it was an adaptation of an earlier novel. The Mercury Theatre of the Air regularly adapted novels to perform for this radio program.

Even though there had been a strong disclaimer at the beginning of the broadcast saying the story was only make-believe, there were some real consequences. The radio play was misinterpreted by some to be an actual news story. People crowded into churches, highways became jam-packed with cars, and many people put on gas masks. In one unlucky town in Washington State, an actual power failure magnified the frenzy and horror. Thousands of people, believing they were under attack by Martians, flooded newspaper offices and radio and police stations with calls, asking how to flee their city or how they should protect themselves from “gas raids.” Scores of adults reportedly required medical treatment for shock and hysteria. There were even reports of people committing suicide out of fear of the Martians invading New Jersey.

Instructions

After listening to a part of the broadcast (see below), answer the following questions in  3 – 5 pages double spaced.

  • Your written responses should be a minimum of 3 pages (if you include all the questions, please do not count this in the page count. If you use 1/4 of the page for your name and title, please do not include this in the page count). Please us 12 point font, 1 inch margins, double spaced. 

You may want to read the following article for further information about the radio broadcast before answering the questions: National Geographic article: “War of the Worlds”: Behind the 1938 Radio Show Panic.  (Links to an external site.) 

For this assignment, listen to about 15 minutes of the broadcast War of the Worlds. (Pay attention to the first 11 seconds, from the  beginning to 0:11 – when it is introduced as a show. Listeners who missed the introduction and disclaimer that this was a broadcast based on a novel were more likely to believe this was true.)War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast (Links to an external site.)
Questions:

  1. What skills are involved in being a radio listener? In other words, how is ‘reading’ or interpreting the radio program different from ‘reading’ a television program?” Discuss the differences.
  2. Comment on what elements would have been familiar to the listeners and what elements contributed to the panic.
  3. Were these people media illiterate? Or did the Mercury Theatre broadcast play against people’s media literacy? (That is, you had to know something of the conventions to make it “real.”) (The National Geographic article discusses this a bit).
  4. Was this (unintended?) duping of the American public by Welles’s Halloween broadcast something that could have happened only in the 1930s? Have Americans become more sophisticated in their consumption of media? Have you heard about misinformation that has been passed on via the Internet as if it were correct information?
  5. Discuss any other comments or reactions to this radio broadcast, which is one of the most famous of all time