A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes. Nursing diagnoses foster the nurse's independent practice (e.g., patient comfort or relief) compared to dependent interventions driven by physician's orders (e.g., medication administration).
The Sinclair Method. 1  The Sinclair Method (TSM) is a treatment for alcohol addiction that uses a technique called pharmacological extinctionâthe use of an opiate blocker to turn habit-forming behaviors into habit erasing behaviors. The effect returns a personâs craving for alcohol to its pre-addiction state.
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