Depression is "a mental state or chronic mental disorder characterized by feelings of sadness, loneliness, despair, low self-esteem, and self-reproach; accompanying signs include psychomotor retardation (or less frequently agitation), withdrawal from social contact, and vegetative states such as loss of appetite and insomnia."
Nursing Action/Management for Depression Client
- Promote Physical Activity safely .
- Encourage Client to perform full potientional activity
- Promote healthy environmental
- To give moral and emotional supporte client and family
- Teach about family and client of this condition,Dignosis,prognosis
- To share experience/intreractions that enhance self-esteem sence of personal power
- To give medication as prescribed
