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cnetterville

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Which nursing diagnosis should a nurse identify as appropriate when working with a client diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder?
 
  A. Altered thought processes R/T increased stress
  B. Risk for suicide R/T loneliness
  C. Risk for violence: directed toward others R/T paranoid thinking
  D. Social isolation R/T inability to relate to others

Question 2

A client is prescribed disulfiram as part of his alcohol treatment program to prevent relapse. The client asks the nurse, How will this drug help me? Which response by the nurse would be most appropriate?
 
  A) It will help to cure your alcoholism.
  B) It can help to prevent you from drinking.
  C) It makes the withdrawal symptoms less troublesome.
  D) It helps to clear the alcohol out of your body.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 19, 2018
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An appropriate nursing diagnosis when working with a client diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder is social isolation R/T inability to relate to others. Clients diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder appear cold, aloof, and indifferent to others. They prefer to work in isolation and are unsociable.

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