NURS 3001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Urinary Catheterization, Recovery Approach, Mood Stabilizer
14 Sep 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The person"s: brief psychotic disorder this disorder involves a sudden onset of one ability to function is not markedly impaired, nor is behaviour otherwise odd or psychotic. Subtypes include erotomanic (believe famous person is in love with them), grandiose, jealous, somatic, mixed and unspecified. positive symptom of psychosis and lasts for at least one day, but less than a month. It is often precipitated by extreme stressors and is followed by a return to premorbid function. Induced or secondary psychosis psychosis may be induced by substance such as drugs of abuse, alcohol, medications or toxins. Psychoses may also be caused by a medical condition (delirium, neurological or metabolic conditions, hepatic or renal disorders any many others). This disorder may or may not develop into schizophrenia; people who do not develop schizophrenia have a good prognosis. Schizophrenoform itself usually does not impair social or occupational functioning.
