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Assignment:
In this discussion, you'll describe a patient with a mood disorder and the appropriate nursing interventions. Please answer the following questions in your initial posting:
Describe a client from your clinical setting or previous experience who experienced depression or mania. Include a brief history and 3-5 most pertinent medications.
- Identify one problem that was not resolved with the treatment regimen. What are the reasons it may not have been successful? Include nursing as well as other team members.
- Identify one effective nursing intervention and why you feel it worked.
- Overall, do you feel this client was kept safe? Why or why not?
- Please provide supporting evidence for your answers.
In this discussion, we'll discuss anxiety, effective and ineffective interventions, and stress management. Please include the following in your initial posting:
Describe a client from your clinical setting or work who experienced severe anxiety or panic. Include a brief history and the three most pertinent medications.
- Describe the assessment process for this patient.
- Identify at least one practical and one non-effective nursing intervention. Why did they work? What didn't work?
- Name and describe two stress reduction techniques you have used and whether they were helpful or not in reducing stress.
Think about a client with schizophrenia that you know about from personal, work, or clinical experience, news media, or other sources. Describe the individual.
- What are the positive and negative symptoms?
- What are the person's struggles? What treatments have been tried and failed? What works?
- If you were that person, what would you like to tell your nurse about yourself, your needs, and your fears?
Pick any scholarly sources and add in-text citations if possible.