Nursing a Client with Schizophrenia
DEMOGRAPHIC DATA
My client is a male patient aged sixty-seven (67) years old he and his family come from Molepolole, Botswana. He lives in Molepolole, goo-Mabe ward with his wife, seven (7) children and five (5) grandchildren. He has another son who is epileptic and lives with his wife’s mother. His next of kin is his wife, KM and the family do not have either a land line or cell phone number but can be reached by post at P. O. Box XXX, Molepolole. He has never been to school and is unemployed.
FAMILY HISTORY
By nationality CM is a Motswana and both of his parents are deceased but he does not remember the year. He has four (4) siblings, two (2) males and two (2) females. His parents bore seven (7) children all together but two (2) died, a male and a female. The remaining children are five (5), three (3) males and two (2) females. CM does not remember the ages of his siblings and says that they do not visit him and his family often. CM reports that both of his parents drank alcohol but his father quit. There is no one in his nuclear family with a history of any mental illness but there is someone in his extended family with a mental illness. His paternal uncle’s daughter has a mental illness.
PERSONAL HISTORY
CM has never in his life been to school but he can read and write. He is an ex miner and worked in the mines in Rustenburg, South Africa in 1966. He earned a salary of two thousand rands (R2000). In 1988, his condition got worse and he was brought home. When he got better he worked as a laborer and helped build Sedumedi Community Junior Secondary School where he earned three hundred pula (P300). When the building project was completed he survived with piece jobs and now he is an old pensioner.
During his childhood, CM lived with his parents and they had a very good relationship. He never got any abuse from his parents; neither physical nor emotional. He played with others in the community playing games like ‘morabaraba’. He had a good relationship with
My client is a male patient aged sixty-seven (67) years old he and his family come from Molepolole, Botswana. He lives in Molepolole, goo-Mabe ward with his wife, seven (7) children and five (5) grandchildren. He has another son who is epileptic and lives with his wife’s mother. His next of kin is his wife, KM and the family do not have either a land line or cell phone number but can be reached by post at P. O. Box XXX, Molepolole. He has never been to school and is unemployed.
FAMILY HISTORY
By nationality CM is a Motswana and both of his parents are deceased but he does not remember the year. He has four (4) siblings, two (2) males and two (2) females. His parents bore seven (7) children all together but two (2) died, a male and a female. The remaining children are five (5), three (3) males and two (2) females. CM does not remember the ages of his siblings and says that they do not visit him and his family often. CM reports that both of his parents drank alcohol but his father quit. There is no one in his nuclear family with a history of any mental illness but there is someone in his extended family with a mental illness. His paternal uncle’s daughter has a mental illness.
PERSONAL HISTORY
CM has never in his life been to school but he can read and write. He is an ex miner and worked in the mines in Rustenburg, South Africa in 1966. He earned a salary of two thousand rands (R2000). In 1988, his condition got worse and he was brought home. When he got better he worked as a laborer and helped build Sedumedi Community Junior Secondary School where he earned three hundred pula (P300). When the building project was completed he survived with piece jobs and now he is an old pensioner.
During his childhood, CM lived with his parents and they had a very good relationship. He never got any abuse from his parents; neither physical nor emotional. He played with others in the community playing games like ‘morabaraba’. He had a good relationship with
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