Question

n this discussion, you'll describe a patient with a mood disorder and the appropriate nursing interventions. Please answer the following questions in your initial posting:

Describe a client from your clinical setting or previous experience who experienced depression or mania. Include a brief history and 3-5 most pertinent medications.

Identify one problem that was not resolved with the treatment regimen. What are the reasons it may not have been successful? Include nursing as well as other team members.

Identify one effective nursing intervention and why you feel it worked.

Overall, do you feel this client was kept safe? Why or why not?

Please provide supporting evidence for your answers.

Answer 1

Mood disorder is a psychological problem where the patient experience either a depressive episode or manic episode.

Depression is a state of mood disorder where the individual experience decreased mood ,loss of interest,loss of pressure in activities previously enjoyed, anorexia, weight loss, fatigue,loss of energy, restlessness, pacing up and down,delayed movements, guilty feeling,loss of concentration,poor decision making,death , suicide thought.

The main treatment for this is support, psychotherapy, medication therapy.

The medication therapy are

• Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
• Monoamine oxidase inhibitors
• Tricyclic antidepressants
• Atypical antidepressants
• Selective serotonin

A client who is in his early adulthood has suffered depression because of financial instability and how to care for his family members.A problem which was not resolved was not involving in the society after treatment.Feeling of oddness that the individual was treated for psychological problems.The treatment w may be successful due to the society or the environment which cannot be modified for a patient whereas a patient as to molded for adjusting to any situations.

A effective nursing treatment to be given is a psychological support, health education, behavioral therapy, building up confidence.

Yes this client was kept safe where there was a continuous support from the family members.