Nursing Care Plan for Depression
Nursing Assessment
Depression
a. Subjective Data:
Not able to express opinions and lazy speech. Often expressed somatic
complaints. Feeling themselves are not useful anymore, feel
insignificant, there is no purpose in life, feeling desperate and likely to
commit suicide.
b. Objective data:
Body movements that are blocked, the body is curved and when
sitting in an attitude of slump, depressed facial expression, a slow gait
with dragging step. Sometimes it can happen stupor. Patients appear
lazy, tired, no appetite, difficulty sleeping and often cry. Thought
process too late, as if the mind is empty, disturbed concentration, has
no interest, can not think, do not have the imagination depressive
psychosis patients have deep feelings of guilt, no sense (irrational),
delusions of sin, depersonalization, and hallucinations. Sometimes
patients prefer hostile, irritable and does not like to be disturbed.
Maladaptive Coping
a. Subjective Data: states hopeless and helpless, unhappy,
b. Objective Data: looks sad, irritable, restless, unable to control
impulses.
The general objective: There was no violence for Self-Directed or
Other-Directed
1. Specific objectives
oClients can build a trusting relationship
Action:
