Eight months ago, a client was in a hotel fire and was the last person to be rescued from the roof. The client watched the clien
t's spouse burn to death from the helicopter. The client continues to have nightmares and is fearful that the client will die in a fire. An appropriate nursing diagnosis for the client is what?
Sleep pattern disturbances related to recurrent nightmares
Explanation:
After having to deal with such situation it is a completely normal reaction the one the client is going through. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can be experienced after an event as the one discribed in this task, and the symptoms are generally anxiety, avoidance of places or insomnia. These kind of symptoms are triggered due to the fact that the brain is overflowed with neurochemicals such as epinephrine and adrenaline.
