Include the following for 25 points each for schizophrenia: 1. Description of id
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Question
Include the following for 25 points each for schizophrenia:
1. Description of identified patient (age, gender, general appearance, presenting symptoms) –
2. Treatment: Intervention of Nurse and treatment team, including medications that would be typically used.
3. Patient care priorities and teaching points to patient and family regarding their treatment and medications (side-effects, special considerations).
4. Expected outcome (s) including hospitalization, outpatient treatment and referrals, community resources.
Explanation / Answer
1) Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that appears in late adolescence and early adulthood.It affects how a person thinks, behaves and feels.
1. Positive symptoms: also called as psychotic symptoms. ex : delusions and hallucinations
2. Negative symptoms: ex: lack of motivation, absence of facial expressions
3. Cognitive symptoms: it affects the thought process. ex: poor concentration
4. Emotional symptoms: ex: blunted emotions.
2) TREATMENT: Treatment of disorder is basically combination of drugs, psychological counseling and self help groups.
3) Patient care priorities and teachings to family:
4) Outcomes: The outcome of these patients are poor but with adequate drug therapy and counseling, they can be trained to live relatively well in the society. The chances of relapses and re hospitalization is high. But still pharmacological and psychosocial therapy have been proved effective in managing schizophrenia. Various self help groups are formed in order to manage them and it also provide adequate education to the family to deal with them. The patients needs to undergo regular follow up visit in the outpatient area which is very important to check the adherence to the therapy. In certain areas where treatment is not easily accessible, referral services are provided. Once the patient suspected to have schizophrenia, they are referred to the psychiatrist to confirm the diagnosis and to start necessary treatment.