Jenna's Eportfolio

Assignment: “Your past experience, assumptions, and hopes for your future career will influence what you contribute to and gain from this course. Describe any nursing specialties you are interested in, what sparks that interest, and what you would like to learn more about that specialty. Describe your assumptions about evidence-based practice and what informs those assumptions. Reflect on how you will apply what you learn in this course to your other courses (classroom or clinical) and how this learning will help you in future practice.” There…

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PROMPT QUESTIONS 1. Why do you think there is so much stigma associated with mental illness? What factors do you think contribute to self-stigma? 2. In what ways might a person’s culture impact their response to mental illness? Consider, for example, how religiousness/spirituality might intertwine with a person’s conceptualization of wellness and illness. I think there are negative stigmas associated with mental illness because the having this illness is not something that you can typically see on the outside. People…

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