Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans and Psychotropic Medications

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Interpreting With this technique the unconscious, to tell the therapist seeks to make conscious that which is client the meaning of his or her experience. Better to say: “What you really “Unconsciously about you right with the client.you’re saying...”mean is...”now.”nurse must leave interpretation of the client’s behavior to the psychiatrist. The nurse has not been prepared to perform this technique and, in attempting to do so, may endanger other nursing roles The
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