Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing by Videbeck

The client will interact with others in the environment. The client will express thoughts and feelings in a safe and socially a ...

of silence. The presence of the nurse is a contact with reality for the client and also can demonstrate the nurse’s genuine inte ...

based activity at the same time, so this technique of distracting the client is often useful. It also may be useful to work with ...

316 Unit 4 NURSINGPRACTICE FORPSYCHIATRICDISORDERS NURSING CARE PLAN FOR A CLIENT WITH DELUSIONS Nursing Diagnosis ➤Disturbed Th ...

14 SCHIZOPHRENIA 317 continued from page 316 When the client has full knowledge of procedures, he or she is less likely to feel ...

Box 14-4 ➤ RISKFACTORS FORRELAPSE HEALTH RISK FACTORS Impaired cause-and-effect reasoning Impaired information processing Poor ...

they are not the cause of schizophrenia. Participating in organizations such as the Alliance for the Mentally Ill may help famil ...

of all administration times so the client can cross off each time he or she has taken the medications. Clients may have practica ...

Have the client’s psychotic symptoms dis- appeared? If not, can the client carry out his or her daily life despite the persiste ...

MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION Psychiatric rehabilitation has the goal of recovery for clients with major mental illness that goes beyo ...

Remember that the client’s remarks are not directed at you personally but are a byprod- uct of the disordered and confused thin ...

and statements when speech and thoughts are disorganized or confused; helping to de- velop social skills by modeling and practic ...

textbook of psychiatry,Vol. 1 (7th ed., pp. 1199–1210). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Marland, G. R., & C ...

Chapter Review 326 Chapter Study Guide ➤ MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS Select the best answer for each of the following questions. ...

327 ➤ SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS Give an example of each of the following: Delusion Hallucination ➤ FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS Id ...

Illusion For each of the following client statements, write a response the nurse might make, and the rationale for the nurse’s ...

“I can feel my stomach rotting away.” “I must do what God tells me to do.” 329 ➤ CLINICAL EXAMPLE John Jones, 33, has been adm ...

Identify the three priorities, nursing diagnoses, and expected outcomes for John’s care, with your rationales for the choices. ...

331 15 Learning Objectives After reading this chapter, the student should be able to 1.Discuss etiologic theories of depression ...

332 Unit 4 NURSINGPRACTICE FORPSYCHIATRICDISORDERS Everyone occasionally feels sad, low, and tired with the desire to stay in be ...