NURS 223L - Psychiatric Nursing Process Worksheet week 3

Student Name: NAME HERE Date 04/24/20 Client History: Name (initials only): _VR_ Age: _57_ Gender: _F_ Unit: _PSYCH Date of Admission: 04/24/20 Current Legal Status (Vol., 5150, 5250, Conservatorship, T-Con): Suspected voluntary admission, Family still care for patient. “Grandson and niece that is her support system and Power of Attorney” Psychiatric Diagnosis: Dementia, Depression and Anxiety Medical and (or) physical problems: CHF, DVT, Stage IV Ovarian Cancer with multiple Lymph node involvement and possible liver metastasis. Psychosocial and Environmental Problems: Lack of education only went to high school; Patient does not attend group activities. Thinking that everyone is trying to hold her hostage. (problems with primary support group, education, occupational, housing, economic, access to health care) Presenting Problem Reason for hospitalization (Client’s own words): Attempted elopement from her Memory Care Unit. patient Wanders Current stressors: Stage IV Ovarian Cancer with multiple lymph node involvement and possible liver metastasis, Anxiety, Depression. Mental Status Examination Appearance (e.g. showered & groomed, wearing clean clothes, bizarre, inappropriate, disheveled, heavy makeup): Patient mental statue is inappropriate due to “terminal condition that has metastasized to the brain causing an alteration in mental status” Behavior & Motor Activity (Calm, hyperactive, bizarre gestures, mannerisms, tics, tremors, psychomotor retardation, restlessness, repetitive behavior, other): Retardation, Restlessness “Wandering into other patients’ rooms, slapping them in the face and stealing cups off the medication cart” Attitude (cooperative, uncooperative, friendly, hostile, guarded, suspicious, belligerent): Patient attitude is guarded and uncooperative with care Affect (blunted, flat, guarded, labile, expansive, sad, or other): Patient is very Sad, Mood (euthymic, angry, anxious, expansive, euphoric, irritable, apathetic, sad, or other): Patient is Irritable and anxious Speech (normal rate, rhythm & tone, slowed, prolonged, speech latency, soft, loud, spontaneous, slurred, pressured, or other): Patient is very soft spoken with a low tone Thought Content: Suicide Ideation (plan and/or intent): NO Homicidal Ideation (plan and/or intent): NO Hallucinations (auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory, tactile): NO Delusions (bizarre, jealous, somatic, persecutory, paranoid, control, grandiose, religious, erotomania): Sometimes patient is Delusional Perception (ideas of reference, ideas of influence, thought insertion, thought withdrawal, thought broadcasting, depersonalization, phobias, illusions, other): Ideal of influence has the perception that everyone is trying to hold her hostage.