Client With Dementia and Agitation / Anxiety
This item is included in the following series/curriculum: Mental Health Nursing
- Grade Level: General-Adult
- Subjects: Specific Career Information, Psychology
- Produced By: Alberta Advanced Education
- Year: 2003
- Country: Canada
- Language: English
- Running Time: 25m
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It can be very challenging for mental health nurses to care for persons with dementias like Alzheimer's disease. In this pair of vignettes, a novice tries to comfort and re-orient an older man with dementia in a nursing home. Then we witness how a more experienced nurse is able to help the older man feel much less anxious about his current situation. A second set of vignettes demonstrates some of the skills and techniques needed when caring for a person with severe anxiety.