Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans and Psychotropic Medications

individualized for each client, based on the nursing assessment. based on, or flin such a manner that they may be applied to various types of health care settings: inpatient hospitalization, outpatient clinic, home health, partial hospitalization, and private practice, to name a few. Major divisions in the book are identifiatric diagnostic categories, according to the order in which they appear in the 1. ders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR, APA, includes:The use of this format is not to imply that nursing diagnoses are 2. useful to the nurse as background assessment data. This section enhance the usability of the book. In addition, I am not suggest-ing that those nursing diagnoses presented with each psychiatric category are all-inclusive.tion related to the medical diagnostic category, which may be are indeed common to individuals with specifiorders. The diagnoses presented in this book are intended to be used as guidelines for construction of care plans that must be xxviiiThe interventions can also be used in areas in which interdisci-plinary treatment plans take the place of the nursing care plan.that have been identifiThe Disorder:It is valid, however, to state that certain nursing diagnoses Each chapter in Unit II begins with an overview of informa-Predisposing Factors:^ ●^ INTRODUCTION ow from, medical diagnoses; it is meant only to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disor- A defi nition and common types or categories ed. Information regarding theories of c psychiatric dis- ed by psychi-2000).
2 2506_FM_i-xxxvi.indd xxviii 506 _FM_i-xxxvi.indd x 3. the following: 2. 1. xviiidenced by” portion of the nursing diagnosis.Information presented with each nursing diagnosis includes is at risk. etiology, which the nurse may use in formulating the “re-PossibleSymptomatology:“related/risk factors” for the “Risk for” diagnoses. Deficlient.possible causes for the problem identifibehaviors common to the disorder. These behaviors, as they proved by NANDA are identifilated to” portion of the nursing diagnosis, as it applies to the apply to the individual client, may be pertinent to the “evi-for each of the accepted NANDA nursing diagnoses. Any additions or alterations made by the author to the NANDA Riskdefi nition are identifi nition:^ Factors^ Etiologies (“related to”): Note The approved NANDA defi are given for diagnoses for which the client : Defi Subjective and objective data identifying ning characteristics are replaced by ed by brackets [ ]. ed by brackets [ ]. This section suggests ed. Those not ap- nition is included Related/ 1 10/4/10 3:53:26 PM 0 / 4 / 10 3 : 53 : 26 PM