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    Arnold, a 53-year-old male with schizophrenia, was admitted to the psychiatric intensive care unit after becoming agitated and threatening in the emergency room. He has a history of multiple hospitalizations and lives with his elderly mother. Arnold refuses to acknowledge that his parents have died and believes conspiracy theories about multinational corporations. His medications include risperidone and lorazepam as needed for agitation. Nursing diagnoses include disturbed thought processes, ineffective denial about anxiety leaving home and loss of control, and inability to accept his schizophrenia diagnosis.

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    Arnold, a 53-year-old male with schizophrenia, was admitted to the psychiatric intensive care unit after becoming agitated and threatening in the emergency room. He has a history of multiple hospitalizations and lives with his elderly mother. Arnold refuses to acknowledge that his parents have died and believes conspiracy theories about multinational corporations. His medications include risperidone and lorazepam as needed for agitation. Nursing diagnoses include disturbed thought processes, ineffective denial about anxiety leaving home and loss of control, and inability to accept his schizophrenia diagnosis.

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    Arnold, a 53-year-old male with schizophrenia, was admitted to the psychiatric intensive care unit after becoming agitated and threatening in the emergency room. He has a history of multiple hospitalizations and lives with his elderly mother. Arnold refuses to acknowledge that his parents have died and believes conspiracy theories about multinational corporations. His medications include risperidone and lorazepam as needed for agitation. Nursing diagnoses include disturbed thought processes, ineffective denial about anxiety leaving home and loss of control, and inability to accept his schizophrenia diagnosis.

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    NURSING CARE PLAN FOR A PERSON WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA

    The Person with Schizophrenia


    Arnold is a 53-year-old male with a history of schizophrenia with multiple hospitalizations. He was admitted per mental health court
    order to the inpatient mental health unit accompanied by the county sheriff. Arnold was given an antipsychotic and antianxiety medication in the
    emergency room for the safety of himself and others after he attempted to strike an emergency room nurse. Arnold had become agitated and
    threatening while being removed from his family’s farm where he lived with his elderly mother for the past 30 years. Arnold refused to
    acknowledge that his parents had died.

    Setting: Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit


    Baseline Assessment: Arnold is dressed in a suit and dress shirt. On admission he was also wearing a tie, which is his habit whenever
    he leaves his home. His tie, shoes, and belt were removed after arriving on the unit from the emergency room for safety reasons. Arnold wears
    his hair short and he has been completing activities of daily living. Arnold is watchful with a worried and anxious expression. He has a small
    stack of slightly used paper napkins stored between his shirt and suit jacket and holds a small stack of flattened single serving milk cartons in his
    hand. Arnold does not believe that he has schizophrenia and that his previous hospitalizations were attempts by multinational corporations to
    NCM180
    keep him from following his false beliefs regarding his parent’s wishes. Arnold is 5 ft 11 in, weighs 117 lb,Related
    BMI 25, BPLearning
    140/80, PExperience
    78, R 16.
    Denies suicidal thoughts. Denies using alcohol or illegal drugs. Even though he attended both parents’ funerals, he continues to say they are
    merely away for a while. He has been taking his prescribed medications sporadically. Laboratory values are normal.

    Diagnosis:
    Schizophrenia, multiple episode, currently in acute episode

    Medications:
    1. Risperidone (Risperdal) 2 mg BID
    2. Lorazepam (Ativan) 2 mg PO for agitation PRN

    Nursing Diagnoses:
    1. Disturbed thought processes related to uncompensated alterations in brain activity as characterized by:
    a. Delusional thinking (believes there is conspiracy against family multinational corporation, and parents not really
    deceased)
    b. Auditory hallucination (parents talking to him)
    c. Suspiciousness (refuses to use telephone or other technology)
    2. Ineffective Denial related to Anxiety about leaving home as characterized by displacement fear of impact of losing parents and
    home
    3. Ineffective Denial related to Lack of control of life situation as characterized by not perceiving personal relevance to behavior
    4. Ineffective Denial related to threat of unpleasant reality as characterized by inability to admit impact of schizophrenia on life
    pattern.

    Activity
    1. Based on above nursing diagnoses, formulate minimum of two (2) Nursing Care Plans for our patient.
    2. Create a Drug Study for the prescribed medications for the patient.
    3. Using the defining characteristics of each nursing diagnosis, write an appropriate Nurses’ Notes using F-DAR format.

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