Reference no: EM133915009

Scenario:

Admission Data: Carol is a 44-year-old, divorced female, living in the family home with her alcoholic father and 40-year-old unemployed brother. She reports feeling very hopeless since the death of her mother two years ago from breast cancer but she does not know what to do about it. Carol indicates she has no friends and prefers to spend most of her time alone in her room listening to the radio or watching TV. She says she had always been that way and the early marriage was a mistake - primarily done to please her mother who was alive then. She states that she is unable to perform household tasks because her mother had always done them and she never learned. She is disheveled and says she had not been able to take care of her activities of daily living because her mother always prompted her - even helping her wash her hair four times a week. She tells the nurse that she knows she needs to get help with her feelings of hopelessness but she needs someone to show her what she needs to do.

1. What is the most likely DSM - V personality disorder diagnosis for this patient?

2. What is the nursing diagnosis of highest priority?

3. What are three nursing interventions of highest priority?