NSG 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Day Hospital, Prodrome, Hallucination
10 Dec 2017
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It can effect the person"s lifelong path to recovery: very rare for a person with schizo to have insight into their disorder, increased risk of harm to self, or to others. Goal is not to obliterate all voices but to be able to function with them still there: adjustment period for pt and families and therefore need a lot of support, substance use is eliminated hopefully, ex. 2nd gen metabolic disorders such as diabetes, dyslipidemia, etc. : therefore very important for nurse to pay attention to whole person (ex. Vitals: psychosis a state which the individual is experiencing hallucinations, delusions, or disorganized thoughts, speech, or behaviours, ex. Important to recognize sx right away be experiencing eps. If you have the option but differs in route, give the one with fastest route (ex. Im vs po: neuroleptic malignant syndrome occurs within first 7 days of rx, emergent situation, anticholinergic crisis.
