Case Study

Interventions/ Medications

Nursing interventions are important in nursing and patients as they enable patients to get better for example a therapeutic session can help a depressed patient feel better due to the fact that someone is there communicating and listening to them. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2009 (NICE) recommends that interventions should be monitored and reviewed to assess the effectiveness of treatment. In order for Mrs Smith to get medically fit there were some nursing interventions that were put into place for her by the nurses that were looking after her. Mrs Smith depression had been trigged by the death of her mother; she was referred to the Bereavement Counseling Team. This was because Mrs Smith had also been reporting that she had missed her mother greatly and was also being ambivalent towards her family members; they were finding it difficult to cope with her as she constantly moaned and complained which the family thought she was being ungrateful towards them.

The patient was also referred to other members of the NHS Team such as the psychologists and mental health team. She was receiving Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) from the psychologists because patient had reported seeing her dead mother in her sleep and she was also scared of sleeping at night thus having sleepless nights because she thought that if she sleeps she will die in her sleep. It was also planned that when Mrs Smith was discharged to go home, she would have the mental health team to follow her up to see her prognosis and ensure that she was fitting well into the social life at home as well as psychologically. According to (Given, 2005, cited in, Fulcher et al, 2007 pg. 7) nursing interventions must be within the sc...

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...nto more depth and realise the major effects of depression on individuals. Moreover, the author also learnt the cause’s, statistics, interventions for patients with depression and understood why Mrs Smith was given those interventions. What did not work so well in this essay was that the author had no much theoretical knowledge about the condition of depression and had never looked after a patient with depression before. Next time the author could improve their knowledge about this condition by speaking to the patients more in order to learn about their condition and also by speaking to the experienced members of the team such as the specialist nurses or nurses. The author will also read about the depression condition into more depth so that this will be an advantage should the author look after a depressed patient again in their practice or during next placement.