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I have a careplan due tomorrow. It needs to be psychosocial and deal with depression...any suggestions?

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Just wondering why you waited til today to do it...... Our instructors look at our progress on our Careplans daily...if we are not meeting the goals THEY set for us....we get reprimanded.

Not sure what to tell ya except maybe next time don't wait so long?

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I have a careplan due tomorrow. It needs to be psychosocial and deal with depression...any suggestions?

Hello and Welcome to allnurses.com

Good to have you with us.

What have you done so far as to research for your careplan? How have you addressed psychosocial issues and depression??

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We get our pt tues around noon. We have to write up on all our meds, do a relevant article review, a phys and psychosocial careplan after 2 6hr clinical shifts. All due at end of 2nd shift. I believe I will attempt Hopelessness for my psychosocial careplan.

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If you're not getting enough guidance from your instructors, and the text isn't helpful, then I'd get a good careplan book. I've got several, most I bought on my own but one was required for med-surg. I like the focused careplan books, and the one I had for my psych was really helpful. I get my careplan books on Amazon, used. The psych one that I got and liked was by Elizabeth Varcarolis, published by Saunders Elsevier, ISBN 1-4160-2916-8.

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

any nursing diagnoses that you use on a care plan must be based upon the symptoms the patient has. so, if this patient is depressed, he/she must have some symptoms of the depression. if you do not know what the symptoms of depression are, then you need to research this. you can find information in the links on this thread:

every nursing diagnosis also has a list of symptoms (nanda calls them defining characteristics). your patient must have at least one or more of those symptoms in order for you to use that nursing diagnosis. a diagnosis is the resulting decision or opinion that you make after the process of examination or investigation of the facts. you must follow the steps of the nursing process in the sequence that they occur.

  1. assessment (collect data from medical record, do a physical assessment of the patient, assess adl's, look up information about your patient's medical diseases/conditions to learn about the signs and symptoms and pathophysiology)
  2. determination of the patient's problem(s)/nursing diagnosis (make a list of the abnormal assessment data, match your abnormal assessment data to likely nursing diagnoses, decide on the nursing diagnoses to use)
  3. planning (write measurable goals/outcomes and nursing interventions)
  4. implementation (initiate the care plan)
  5. evaluation (determine if goals/outcomes have been met)

the nursing diagnoses, goals and nursing interventions in a care plan are all based upon the symptoms the patient is exhibiting.

there is a complete listing of the psychosocial nursing diagnoses on post #145 of this thread:

you really need to have some kind of nursing diagnosis reference when working with nursing diagnoses to make sure you are diagnosing correctly.

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