Your schizophrenic patient tells you he is suspicious that his doctor is trying to kill him. Which nursing diagnosis would be most appropriate?

Your schizophrenic patient tells you he is suspicious that his doctor is trying to kill him. Which nursing diagnosis would be most appropriate?

A teenage patient is brought to your hospital by her parents. The patient exhibits unusual behaviors, including illogical thought processes and strange combinations of words that you do not understand. She is wearing dirty clothes and has body odor. The patient also appears to carry on a conversation with a person who is not seen by you. Your first priority for this patient is:

When providing discharge teaching to a patient who has schizophrenia and is taking clozapine (Clozaril), it is important to teach all of the following except:

You are one of the nurses monitoring the dining room during dinner. A male patient who has schizophrenia asks a table mate to please pass the pepper. When the table mate does so, the first patient throws the pepper shaker at you. He or she screams, 'Now look what youve done! There are spiders all over my food! I cant eat this! Get the spiders out of there!' Your best response is:

Your patient describes feeling spiders crawling on his skin rather than seeing spiders. This is an example of a hallucination.