Working with children with obsessive compulsive disorder

1. Children with OCD are a special challenge for nursing staff. 2. Children with OCD often are unable to comply with preexisting behavior management programs at child psychiatric units. 3. Each child who enters an inpatient unit must be viewed as an individual, separate from his or her diagnosis, and what works for one patient with a particular diagnosis may not work for another patient with the same diagnosis. 4. A special plan devised with input from the entire nursing team is the best way to ensure that continuity of care is carried out among all staff on the unit.