Define Schizophrenia and what are the common symptoms that are present with this condition.
How are you going to prepare yourself as a nurse in dealing with patients who are presenting with these symptoms?
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Schizophrenia
Think about a client with schizophrenia that you know about from personal, work or clinical experience, or from news media or other sources. Describe the individual.
What are the positive and/or negative symptoms?
What are the person’s struggles? What treatments have been tried and failed? What works?
If you were that person, what would you like to tell your nurse about yourself, your needs, and your fears?
Schizophrenia.
Complete a thorough summary on a psychological disorder of your choice (Schizophrenia). Please signs and symptoms of the disorder how is it diagnosed, and what treatments are available (medication, therapy hospitalization etc). Additionally, please share if there is an age requirement for the diagnosis and provided statistics related to how many people are diagnosed with this disorder year, and if the disorder is considered common or rare Provide as much detail as possible . Please use at least two references and do not plagiarize .
Schizophrenia.
Complete a thorough summary on a psychological disorder of your choice (Schizophrenia). Please signs and symptoms of the disorder how is it diagnosed, and what treatments are available (medication, therapy hospitalization etc). Additionally, please share if there is an age requirement for the diagnosis and provided statistics related to how many people are diagnosed with this disorder year, and if the disorder is considered common or rare Provide as much detail as possible . Please use at least two references and do not plagiarize .
Schizophrenia
Think about a client with schizophrenia that you know about from personal, work or clinical experience, or from news media or other sources. Describe the individual.
What are the positive and/or negative symptoms?
What are the person’s struggles? What treatments have been tried and failed? What works?
If you were that person, what would you like to tell your nurse about yourself, your needs, and your fears?
Please provide evidence from professional sources to support your information. Include examples of your prior experience with a client who was having a problem with delusions and/or hallucinations.
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Schizophrenia
Explain the 5 types of Schizophrenia (Paranoid, Disorganized, Catatonic, Undifferentiated, Residual)
Schizophrenia
Watch the following YouTube interview with mathematician and Nobel prize winner John Nash Jr. and his son, both diagnosed with schizophrenia. Answer the questions below regarding John Nash Jr.’s son.
Considering the history provided and what you can observe in the video, what symptoms of schizophrenia, positive and negative, does Johnny Nash have?
What medications would be prescribed for Johnny Nash, and why?
Discuss the etiology of schizophrenia. How does it apply to John and Johnny Nash’s case?
Schizophrenia
Choose one of the psychological disorders discussed in modules 49-52 that interests you and address that disorder in this discussion board. You may not utilize or research PTSD; Eating Disorders; or Personality Disorders since these were addressed in another assignment/discussion board. Utilize at least one other reliable source, in addition to your textbook, and gather more information to meet the discussion board prompts. Discuss what distinguishes “normal” behavior from the criteria listed for the disorder chosen. Discuss the environmental; biological; and psychological issues that contribute to the disorder. In other words, what might set someone on the path to a particular psychological disorder? What are the causes? Once diagnosed with the disorder, what are the potential treatment options and what is the efficacy of these options? Is one type of treatment better than another?