Recovery Focused Nursing Care Plans

Recovery Focused Care Plan
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Authors Note

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Recovery Focused Nursing Care Plan
Consumers
Priority
Identified
Goals/Issues
The consumer’s strengths
to
address these
issues.
Consumer and Nursing Interventions Person/s
Responsible
Timeframe
#1
Jack has been
suffering
from paranoid
schizophrenia,
which is the
major reason
he has been
admitted.
Issue: Jack is
suffering from
paranoid ideation,
along with
schizophrenia. He
has been having
auditory
hallucinations and
delusions about
warlords coming
to harm him and
his family.
Goal: The goal is
to bring his
paranoia as well
as psychosis under
control so that he
is not afraid for
his family and
himself anymore.
HONOS Score: 4
By means of active
collaboration with the care
manager, Jack came up
with the following
strengths –
- Jack loves his
family, and he
wants to believe
that they are safe.
The same goes for
his friends and
peers.
- He wants to get his
life under control
and understands
that the paranoia is
causing
disruptions in his
life.
- He is not religious,
and he should not
be moved by
religious
hallucinations.
- He wants to
continue his
studies and go
back to university.
He understands
that in order to do
- The first intervention that can be
offered to Jack is Cognitive
Therapy. Cognitive Behavioural
Therapy and Cognitive
Remediation Therapy are two
useful possibilities (Chien et al.,
2013). Cognitive Behavioural
Therapy has a positive effect on
the distress faced by patients of
schizophrenia (Laws et al., 2018).
Cognitive therapy is the most
successful therapy for
schizophrenia (Beck, 2018), and it
will very likely help Jack get over
his paranoid schizophrenia.
Computer-based cognitive
remediation therapies can also be
helpful as they often have long
term positive effects on the quality
of life and stability of the patient. It
also ensures that the readmission
due to acute symptoms is lowered
(Garrido et al., 2017). Since Jack
fears coming back to the facility,
this would be a perfect intervention
for him.
- Family intervention may be helpful
for the proper management in
Jack’s paranoid schizophrenia
(Chien et al., 2013). Since, jack’s
The nurses and the care
manager. They will
ensure that cognitive
therapies and other
interventions are
administered properly.
Jack’s family, that is –
his brother and his
parents, must take a
strong part in helping
him by supporting him
throughout the process.
It has been seen that
having family support
has often had positive
outcomes for patients
suffering from
schizophrenia (Shehu &
ADEBISI, 2019).
This should take the
longest time. At least
a month of
intervention or longer
may be required for
Jack.