... wife's recovery as he believes after a couple of weeks in hospital with physiotherapy that she will be back to her normal self. The nursing staff have explained to Mr. Brown that it is not so simple and that she will need a lot of care when she goes home. There is also communication problems with Mrs. Brown as communication has been impaired since the stroke we have tried to explain to her what has happened and what will happen but are not sure how much she has understood due to our difficulties in understanding her. I will go into communication in more detail with regards to Mrs. Brown later in the essay. What is the crisis theory? The crisis theory is a psychological theory mainly used in mental health areas but there is now reasoning that it should be used in general nursing in an acute setting. It looks at ...

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