Nurse’s Role in Schizophrenia Patient Caring: A Case Study and Nursing Care

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a chronically psychological disorder that is a health problem. Schizophrenia patients have abnormal cognition, perception, emotion, and behaviors. The progression of this disease is gradually. The schizophrenia patient develops different behaviors from layperson that leads the patient to have problem to participate in social, working, caring for themselves, and making relationship to other persons. Nurses play the significant role to apply knowledge to care for schizophrenia patients that covers physical, mental, emotional, and social aspects. When the patient returns home, family members and relatives are a key person to care for the patient to prevent relapse symptoms of schizophrenia. Consequently, the patient has good quality of life and living well with family and social.