Nursing Care for Schizophrenia (Diagnosis, Care Plan, and Interventions) + Free Quiz

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Let’s just start with the definition – Schizophrenia is a group of disorders characterized by abnormal social behavior and disturbances in mood, thought processes, behavior, and affect. We’ll talk about the different types in the next lesson. In this lesson I want to talk about the general symptoms and nursing interventions for all types of schizophrenia.

So, to be diagnosed with Schizophrenia, clients need to have at least two of the following symptoms, at least one of which should be a positive symptom. So first, what the heck does it mean to say a positive symptom and a negative symptom. It’s not like good and bad, it’s more like add and subtract. So, positive symptoms add things cognitively. This may include hallucinations or delusions, disorganized speech, or bizarre behavior – they’re new things added to the patient’s thought processes. Negative symptoms subtract things – so a decreased emotional range, a loss of interest, a lack of inertia. Inertia itself is a tendency to stay in motion – so if they’ve lost that, it’s a tendency to do nothing and remain unchanged. So those are negative symptoms.
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