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Nursing Interventions for Depression

Depression is a condition that is more of a sad situation, when the depressed person's condition to cause the disruption of their daily social activities then it is called as a depression disorder. Some symptoms of depression disorders are feelings of sadness, excessive fatigue after usual routine activity, lost interest and enthusiasm, lazy bunch, and disruption of sleep patterns. Depression is one of the major causes of suicide.

Nursing Interventions for Depression


Goal :
There was no violence for Self-Directed or Other-Directed

1. Clients can build a trusting relationship.

Interventions :
  • Introduce yourself to the patient
  • Do interactions with patients as often as possible with empathy
  • Listen to the notice of the patient with empathy and patient attitude more use non-verbal language. For example: a touch, a nod.
  • Note the patient talks and give a response in accordance with her wishes
  • Speak with a low tone of voice, clear, concise, simple and easy to understand
  • Accept the patient is without comparing with others.

2. Clients can use adaptive coping

Interventions :

  • Give encouragement to express feelings and say that nurses understand what patients perceived.
  • Ask the patient the usual way to overcome feeling sad / painful
  • Discuss with patients the benefits of commonly used coping
  • Together with patients looking for alternatives, coping.
  • Give encouragement to the patient to choose the most appropriate coping and acceptable
  • Give encouragement to patients to try coping that have been selected
  • Instruct the patient to try other alternatives in solving problems.

3. Clients are protected from violent behavior to self and others.

Interventions :

  • Monitor carefully the risk of suicide / violence themselves.
  • Keep and store the tools that can be used by patients for violent behavior, self / others, in a safe place and locked.
  • Keep materials that endanger the patient's appliance.
  • Supervise and place the patient in the room that easily monitored by nurse.

4. Clients can improve self-esteem

Interventions :
  • Help to understand that the client can overcome despair.
  • Assess and mobilize internal resources of individuals.
  • Help identify sources of hope (eg, peer relationships, beliefs, things to be resolved).

5. Clients can use the social support

Interventions :
  • Review and make use of individual external sources (the people closest to, the health care team, support groups, religion).
  • Assess support system beliefs (values, past experiences, religious activities, religious beliefs).
  • Make referrals as indicated (eg, counseling, religious leaders).

6. Clients can use the drug correctly and precisely

Interventions :
  • Discuss about the drug (name, dosage, frequency, effect and side effects of taking medication).
  • Help using the drug with the principle of 5 correct (right patient, medication, dose, manner, time).
  • Encourage talking about effects and side effects are felt.
  • Give positive reinforcement when using the drug properly.

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