Nursing care plan

Name: Ms. M

DSM-IV-TR diagnosis: Depression

Assessment Areas of strength: in good health, oriented

Problems: Lack of social skills, social isolation, inability to establish

and maintain stable relationship

Diagnosis Impaired social interaction

Outcomes Short term:

• The patient will establish therapeutic relationship with the nurse.

• The patient will identify the factors that interfere with socialization.

Long term:

• The patient will enumerate strategies to promote effective

socialization.

• The patient will practice new social skills.

Intervention Nurse patient relationship:

• Initiate a nurse-patient relationship with the client. Establish a time

each day to meet with her to support her as she cope with her
environment.

• Provide supportive group therapy, establish group rules that

discourage inappropriate social behavior, and encourage testing of
new social behavior to assess her ability to interact in the group.

• Provide a therapy so that the patient can become comfortable in

social situations to assess patient’s willingness to participate with
others.

Psychopharmacology:

• nozinan 100mg/tab
• zyprexa 10mg/tab
 Milieu management:

• Identify the environment in which social interactions are impaired

to assess for readiness to return to learning and working
environment.

Evaluation The patient was able to establish a therapeutic relationship with the
nurses.

Through the relationship and the group, the patient identified barriers
in his interpersonal relationships.