Schizophrenia Case Study Margaret Newman

The phrase that was used by Margaret Newman “The nurse and client become partners in living through the period of disharmony and emerging at a higher level of consciousness” meant that even though the patient is going through this difficult time of illness, his or her sees this one person as a partner which is the nurse. The patient sees the nurse as someone he or she can trust, someone is he or she can count on, and someone he or she believe has his or her best interest.

It was about three months ago I was working in the psychiatric emergency room when I inherited a patient from the night shift nurses. This patient was a 17 years old female with a history of bipolar and schizophrenia, came to the emergency room after having an altercation

with her mother. Before this patient was handed off to be, I overheard the patient calling her mother to come and pick her up. The report that was given by the night shift nurse was that the patient is pending discharge and is waiting for her discharge papers. After completed my rounds I went and spoke with the psychiatrist and who stated that the patient is up for admission. I went over to the patient and introduce myself and advised the patient of the physician’s plan for her. The patient went from being calm to be very violent to the point where two of the staffs got hurt and the patient ended up being restrained. Based on the report that I got from the previous nurse, it was great working with the patient and she was excited about going home with her mother. However, after she found out that she was being admitted, she became upset. According to Neuman’s system model, the patient has her own goal, and that was to go home (“Nurseinterupted”, 2012).

Reference
Nurseinterupted. (2012). The Application of the Neuman’s Systems Model to an End of Life Transition. Retrieved from https://nurseinterupted.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/the-application-of-the-neumans-systems-model-to-an-end-of-life-transition/