Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans and Psychotropic Medications

adequate choices of practiced responses, and/or inability to use 1. Client is able to verbalize events that precipitate anxiety ...

(^244) By time of discharge from treatment, client will identify, de-velop, and use socially acceptable coping skills.Interventi ...

Possible Etiologies (“related to”)DefiDefi[Lack of motivation to change behaviors]Outcome Criteria 1. Client is able to verbaliz ...

by time of discharge from treatment.to his or her optimal ability, considering change in health status, Long-term GoalClient wil ...

●8. Help client identify resources within the community from 2. Client is able to make independent decisions regarding life-^ De ...

Short-term Goal 1. Determine stage of grief in which client is fi 3. Convey an accepting attitude so that the client is not afra ...

Help cl ient solve problems as he or she at tempt s to deter m i ne 1. Client is able to verbalize normal stages of grief proce ...

Short-term Goals^250 1. Client will exhibit increased feelings of self-worth as evi-Long-term Goals 2. Client will verbalize thi ...

Minimize negative feedback to client. Enforce limit-setting 9. Help client increase level of self-awareness through criti-^ 6. ...

within (realistic time period), seeking that staff member out for^252 Interventions with 2. Client will voluntarily spend time w ...

Move from one environment to anotherLack of adequate support systemOutcome Criteria 1. Client seeks out staff member for social ...

the relocation (time dimension to be determined individually).evident physical and psychological symptoms associated with Client ...

Additional information about adjustment disorder may be 3. The individual willingly participates in social and vocational INTER ...

Te x t R e v i s i o n ( D S M - I V-T R )pleasurable. 2. The individual experiences an increasing sense of tension or Impulse C ...

preoccupation with gambling, and the impulse to gamble, in-The individual with kleptomania steals purely for the sake of vidual ...

(^) 10. The need to gamble or loss of money interferes with social 9. Increasing tension that is relieved only by placing a bet ...

Short-term GoalLong-term Goal[Possible familial tendency][Dysfunctional family system, resulting in behaviors such as the ventio ...

Help client recognize the signs that tension is increasing^260 ● 3. The client is able to inhibit the impulse for violence and ...

7. Offer self to client during times of increasing anxiety, 2. A helmet may be used 1. Anxiety is maintained at a level at which ...

ally determined).Client will verbalize adaptive ways to cope with stress by means 1. Help client gain insight into his or her be ...