Perceiving Ethical Discomfort Triggered by Situations that Resist Meaning in Community Mental Health Settings: A Grounded Theory.

Community mental health care is a practice setting conducive to the emergence of special situations since the intervention takes place in the client's living environment, a context fraught with multiple and often unpredictable events and triggers. In addition, the healthcare workers are often alone in making decisions. This can lead to a persistent feeling of discomfort when the situation can be seen from several different angles and the healthcare workers find it difficult to make the right decision or are uncomfortable with the consequences of a decision they must make.

The Potential Impact of Recreational Cannabis Legalization on the Prevalence of Cannabis Use Disorder and Psychotic Disorders: A Retrospective Observational Study.

Objectives: The principal objective of our study was to document the short-term impact of the legalization of recreational cannabis on active cannabis use, cannabis use disorder, and various psychotic disorders.

Methods: We carried out a retrospective observational study of patients who were at least 12 years old and who had visited a psychiatrist in the emergency unit of the (CHUS). We included all the consultations of this type over a 5-month period, immediately following the legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada.

[Impacts of Cannabis Legalisation on Mental Health: A Literature Review].

Objectives To review the known impacts of recreational cannabis legalization on mental health and substance use, in the context of recent changes in the status of cannabis laws in Canada. Methods PubMed database was systematically searched using various terms regarding mental health and cannabis legalization. Two independent investigators then assessed a total of 272 titles and abstracts and 11 articles were ultimately found eligible for review.

Hope in tragedy. When action gives meaning to a life.

The experience of illness causes disorientation, a loss of meaning, and a loss of freedom to act. In other words, the entire field of practical possibilities diminishes, resulting in action being viewed as something impossible. In this case, the question is the following: Can the nurse contribute to maintaining hope for a life that is rich in meaning, adjusted to the limits imposed by the patient’s illness? To explore the answer to this question, we propose a humanistic model of accompaniment that enables nurses to restore hope and power to persons in vulnerable situations.

Organ transplantation and meaning of life: the quest for self fulfilment.

Today, the frequency and the rate of success resulting from advances in medicine have made organ transplantations an everyday occurrence. Still, organ transplantations and donations modify the subjective experience of human beings as regards the image they have of themselves, of body, of life and of death. If the concern of the quality of life and the survival of the patients is a completely human phenomenon, the fact remains that the possibility of organ transplantation and its justification depend a great deal on the culture in which we live.