Describe the nursing care related to mental health disorders.

Description should include the

  • etiology
  • client problem
  • clinical manifestations
  • nursing implications
  • management

of the categories of mental/psychiatric disorders.

Process/Skill Questions:

  • What are the etiology, client problem, clinical manifestations, nursing implications, and management of the categories of mental health and/or psychiatric disorders, such as
    • anxiety
    • affective
    • schizophrenia
    • paranoia
    • personality
    • sexual
    • relational
    • eating
    • cognitive
    • alcoholism
    • psychoactive substance abuse
    • violence and suicide
    • those that occur in infancy, childhood, and adolescence
    • those that affect the older adult