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Mental Health & Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans can significantly affect a person’s quality of life.
These plans involve identifying nursing diagnoses such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
By accurately diagnosing these conditions, nursing students can develop care plans that address patients’ specific needs, including medication management, therapy, and patient education on mental health.
Nursing students must also understand the pathophysiology, manifestations, and risk factors of mental health disorders to provide optimal care to patients.
By utilizing the right nursing interventions, nursing students can help patients improve their mental health outcomes and overall quality of life.
Understanding these diagnoses will enable nursing students to work effectively in a variety of healthcare settings, including hospitals, psychiatric facilities, and community mental health clinics.
A mental health condition called borderline personality disorder (BPD) affects how people think and feel regarding themselves and others, which makes it difficult to function in daily life. It includes issues with self-image, trouble controlling emotions and conduct, and a history of unstable relationships. Borderline personality disorder manifests itself commonly in early adulthood. It gets … Read more
Mania is a mental health disorder that involves one or more manic episodes, also known as a manic phase, which lasts for at least one week and is characterized by a shift in behavior that has a significant impact on daily functioning. Mania is distinguished from increased vigor and dysfunction brought on by substance abuse, … Read more
Self-neglect is an extreme behavioral condition or abuse of self in a way that puts at risk one’s well-being or safety. It was defined as the inability to maintain culturally and socially accepted standards of self-care possessing potentially serious consequences to the vulnerable adult and their community. It is a general term to describe a … Read more
Cognitive Impairment Nursing Care Plans Diagnosis and Interventions Cognitive Impairment Nursing Care Plans Diagnosis and Interventions Cognitive impairment is a medical term used to describe patients who have survived debilitating and critical illnesses but have persistent neurological deficits. The brains of these patients are oftentimes compromised and would have problems about: Patients with cognitive impairment … Read more
Compromised Family Coping Nursing Care Plans Diagnosis and Interventions Compromised Family Coping Nursing Care Plans Diagnosis and Interventions Family coping is the capacity of the family to confront vital and stressful events putting into action measures to solve or improve the situation with a direct impact on the family’s health. It involves behavioral and cognitive … Read more
