The patient shows a solid awareness of the psychosocial causes of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when they express understanding of how the experienced event, personal characteristics, and available support networks affect their diagnosis.
The patient must acquire methods for lowering general anxiety levels in order to lessen the need for obsessive behaviors. By day four, these techniques should be taught.
An intrapersonal intervention is to promote conversation about worries.
A patient who is pacing the hallways and becoming more anxious needs to be evaluated right away. There is a chance that the patient could hurt himself or other people if the nurse does nothing about this assessment.
The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) states that the nursing diagnosis format must include three key elements: (1) identification of the health problem; (2) presentation of the etiology (or cause) of the problem; and (3) description of a group of symptoms known as "defining characteristics." The correct response includes all three elements in the proper order: health problem/NANDA stem (social isolation); etiology/cause, or R /T Due to a fear of germs, this client has been unable to leave the house for a year. As a result, the client's behaviors fit the description of social isolation.
A student who avoids class out of concern for peer scrutiny satisfies the requirements for a social phobia diagnosis.
The nurse's discussion of the patient's overuse of ego defense mechanisms serves as an example of a psychodynamic approach to treating the client's panic disorder-related behaviors.
