{"id":172,"date":"2023-05-15T02:21:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T23:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/damilolaehizojie\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2023-08-29T09:26:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T06:26:27","slug":"week-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/damilolaehizojie\/internship\/mental-health-and-substance-abuse\/learning-reflection\/week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I worked in the in-patient female wards and the most common mental disorders are: schizophrenia and manic disorders. I observed that the most common symptoms of schizophrenia includes; hallucinations, delusions, hearing of voices and seeing imaginary things. I was able to safely administered prescribed oral medications, the common drugs we use in my unit are Risperidone and Olazenpine and also  I was able to document and create nursing care plan for the patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from pharmacological therapy, occupational therapy is also used in my unit where patients&#8217; time are pre-occupied with different activities such as basket weaving, crotchet, knitting and so on, one of the things I like about this program is that the patients are allowed to sell their products and make profits thereby enhancing their productivity and giving them a sense of responsibility. I was involved in the coordination and evaluation of activities for the occupational therapy sessions. I also ensured patients&#8217; personal care and hygiene are well taken care of. Feeding was done in a general dinning hall and I ensured patients were fed in order to ensure their nutritional requirements are met. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked in the in-patient female wards and the most common mental disorders are: schizophrenia and manic disorders. I observed that the most common symptoms of schizophrenia includes; hallucinations, delusions, hearing of voices and seeing imaginary things. I was able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8563,"featured_media":0,"parent":167,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/damilolaehizojie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/damilolaehizojie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/damilolaehizojie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/damilolaehizojie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/damilolaehizojie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/damilolaehizojie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/damilolaehizojie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions\/263"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/damilolaehizojie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/damilolaehizojie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}