An 8-year-old client is brought into the healthcare facility with facial twitching and multiple involuntary movements. The healthcare provider identifies these features to be typical tics seen in children with Tourette syndrome (TS)
What are the nursing considerations to be kept in mind when recommending a teaching plan to the client and caregivers? A) Psychiatric counseling helps in reducing tic episodes.
B) Tic symptoms increase as children near adulthood.
C) Tic locations remain constant throughout the course of the syndrome.
D) Tic symptoms have no definite course of treatment.
D
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The nurse should keep in mind that there is no definite course of treatment for Tourette syndrome and that the treatment is only symptomatic. Psychiatric counseling does not decrease tics, but helps the child and the caregivers cope with TS. Many of the tic symptoms decrease as children reach adulthood. Tic locations keep changing periodically throughout the course of TS.
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