#389: Three Scenarios of Schizophrenia

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this episode you’ll see how schizophrenia impacts patient care across all medical environments including a psychiatric hospital, the emergency department and the in-patient setting. Follow along with three patient scenarios that highlight the complexities of caring for a patient with schizophrenia: Jacob - Experiences paranoia and severe mistrust during an ER visit for an infected wound. Learn how careful communication and specific interventions can aid in his treatment. Daniel - Faces a medical emergency brought on by his catatonic state. Discover the complexities of providing care for a patient who cannot communicate or move. Emma - Shows pronounced symptoms of disorganized schizophrenia in a psychiatric intensive care setting. Hear about the strategies that ensure safety and individualized patient care. ___________________ Full Transcript - Read the article and view references. Review Schizophrenia - Review the basics of schizophrenia in this episode FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! Straight A Nursing App - Study on-the-go with the Straight A Nursing app! Review more than 5,000 flashcards covering a wide range of subjects including Fundamentals, Pediatrics, Med Surg, Mental Health, Maternal Newborn, and more! Available for free in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Clinical Success Pack - One of the best ways to fast-track your clinical learning is having the right tools. This pack includes report sheets, sheets to help you plan your day, a clinical debrief form, and a patient safety cheat sheet. 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.9	Well, hello, hello, I'm Nurse Mo, and this is the Straight A Nursing podcast where I teach concepts and share tips on how to thrive in nursing school and at the bedside.
0:56.7	So today we are talking about a mental health condition, but instead of just talking about it in a way that you might get, if you were sitting in a lecture, we're actually
1:02.6	going to talk about it by going through three clinical scenarios that really bring this
1:08.2	condition to life. Now, the mental health concept that we are talking about today is schizophrenia.
1:14.5	So if you want a refresher on this topic, then I invite you to go back and listen to the episode
1:21.3	that I released just a few days ago.
1:25.2	This was an encore episode where I actually pulled episode 81, brought it closer
1:31.1	to the forefront of your podcast feed, and added some updated information at the beginning
1:37.3	so that you could be up to date with your practice. So if you need to get a little bit of
1:42.1	more in-depth look at schizophrenia, then pause this episode,
1:47.5	go back and listen to the episode I just released, or if you can't find it, it says encore at the
1:54.2	very beginning.
1:54.8	But if you don't see it, you can just go back to episode 81.
1:57.7	But again, if you want that updated bit of information, you want to listen to that
2:02.1	encore episode. Now, before we dive into today's topic, let's take a quick minute for a listener
2:08.8	shout out. And I'm so sad because I don't have the person's name that submitted this feedback.
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