Effective Strategies for Nurses Empowering Clients With Schizophrenia: Medication Use as a Tool in Recovery.
Clients with schizophrenia require maintenance treatment with antipsychotic medication and psychosocial therapy to maintain symptom control. Rates of medication adherence or follow-through are low in clients with schizophrenia. This increases the risk of relapse and contributes to poor quality of life. As educators and advisers, psychiatric nurses can collaborate with clients to improve adherence and other outcomes using shared decision-making techniques and tools that engage and empower clients to actively participate in decisions about their treatment. This article outlines effective strategies used by psychiatric nurses to improve outcomes in clients with schizophrenia and uses a case example for demonstrating this strategy in a client with schizophrenia.
a University of Virginia , School of Nursing, Office for Nursing Research, Charlottesville , Virginia , USA.
Irma H
IH
Mahone
b James Madison University , Department of Nursing , Harrisonburg , Virginia , USA.
Chris Fasching
CF
Maphis
c University of Texas at Arlington , College of Nursing and Health Innovation , Arlington , Texas , USA.
Diane E
DE
Snow
D000328:Adult; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055118:Medication Adherence; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses'; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy*
D014150:Antipsychotic Agents