Mood Disorder and Nursing Intervention

In this discussion, you’ll describe a patient with a mood disorder and the appropriate nursing interventions. Please answer the following questions in your initial posting:

Describe a client from your clinical setting or previous experience who experienced depression or mania. Include a brief history and 3-5 most pertinent medications.

• Identify one problem that was not resolved with the treatment regimen. What are the reasons it may not have been successful? Include nursing as well as other team members.
• Identify one effective nursing intervention and why you feel it worked.
• Overall, do you feel this client was kept safe? Why or why not?
• Please provide supporting evidence for your answers.

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Depression is a mental state characterized by recurrent low mood, lack of interest and pleasure in daily tasks, disruption, and decreased energy, contributing to varying degrees of social and occupational impairment (Luo et al., 2019). It is likely to cause changes in the brain that regulate the mood of a person…