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    The document discusses the management and nursing care of chronic schizophrenia patients. It notes that while there is no cure, treatment programs can help patients regain functioning and quality of life through management of symptoms, social rehabilitation, and long-term support. Nursing care involves engaging patients in useful activities, meeting their physical needs like nutrition and hygiene, improving emotional needs like communication and social contact, and providing a therapeutic environment that treats them as human beings and improves their quality of life.

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    The document discusses the management and nursing care of chronic schizophrenia patients. It notes that while there is no cure, treatment programs can help patients regain functioning and quality of life through management of symptoms, social rehabilitation, and long-term support. Nursing care involves engaging patients in useful activities, meeting their physical needs like nutrition and hygiene, improving emotional needs like communication and social contact, and providing a therapeutic environment that treats them as human beings and improves their quality of life.

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    The document discusses the management and nursing care of chronic schizophrenia patients. It notes that while there is no cure, treatment programs can help patients regain functioning and quality of life through management of symptoms, social rehabilitation, and long-term support. Nursing care involves engaging patients in useful activities, meeting their physical needs like nutrition and hygiene, improving emotional needs like communication and social contact, and providing a therapeutic environment that treats them as human beings and improves their quality of life.

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    MANAGEMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

    The treatment of schizophrenia can be arduous process for patients, families and
    clinicians alike, no cure exists for this tenacious disease. So, therapeutic efforts are aimed at management of symptoms and at social and psychological rehabilitations. Nevertheless, carefully designed treatment programmes can help many schizophrenics to regain lost functioning and greater senses of psychological well begin. Long term support is necessary for schizophrenics to improve their ability to function and Quality of life. Management of problems faced by the patient
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    Brushing teeth Taking bath daily Washing clothes Cutshort hair & have the face Teach to recognize and use currencies and coins Teach money handling Involve patient in household work Teach traffic signals & rules Teach road crossing Teach to buy ticket Behave well co-passengers

    NURSING CARE OF THE CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENICS Engage the patient in some useful activity "An idle mind is the devils workshop", therefore the patient who lives in a fantasy will have a poor prognosis. Patient will loss their original potential, yet they will have some minimum capabilities Physical, Emotional and Social needs of Chronic Patients 1. Physical needs

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    Appropriate nutrition - regular diet and supervision of the patient diet Taking care personal hygiene - regular bath and cleanliness Elimination has to be carefully watched - attended to care of the skin because of a chronic schizophrenic living in a crowded , closed place are prone to develop skin problems like scabies and eczema etc. 2. Emotional needs

    The withdrawn patients main problem is lack of communication and poor interpersonal a relationship because of less social contact

    It is the responsibility of the none to improve his communication also his social contacts by encouraging the relatives / friends to visit him often

    Responsibility of the nurse to give importance to personal identity of the patient 3. Therapeutic needs

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    Accepted as a human being Therapeutic environment minimize the danger and will improve the Quality of the person

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