The patient has multiple sclerosis and develops depression. What is the best education the nurse can give the patient's family?
1. "Anytime someone has a brain disease, depression will result."
2. "Depression is very easy to treat with medications we have available."
3. "This is a common problem with chronic debilitating diseases but requires close monitoring."
4. "This is a result of the medications taken for control of symptoms."
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Rationale 1: Patients with a neurological illness do not always develop depression.
Rationale 2: Depression is treatable with medications, but this does not help the family to understand what is happening with the patient.
Rationale 3: Depression is common with any chronic, debilitating disease, but may also be associated with medications. Close monitoring is required.
Rationale 4: The medications are not the cause of the depression.
Global Rationale: Depression is common with any chronic, debilitating disease, but may also be associated with medications. Close monitoring is required.. The medications are not the cause of the depression. Patients with a neurological illness do not always develop depression. Depression is treatable with medications, but this does not help the family to understand what is happening with the patient.
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