Contemporary Nursing

To summarize the narrative nursing experience of a patient with narcolepsy accompanied by depression. In this study, the core techniques of narrative nursing were applied to help the patient externalize problems, deconstruct self-identity and cultural identity. And by using the skills of reframing dialogue, the patient was assisted to shuttle between the identity blueprint and the action blueprint, form a new self-identity and transfer it to the present and the future. The patient and family members were invited to participate in the dialogue together. Through the defining ceremony of narration, retelling and re-retelling, the patient launched a revolution in his own cultural identity, eliminated the estrangement with his mother, and jointly fought against the disease, smoothly entering the stage of growth reflection. After entering the stage of growth reflection, the patient could actively cooperate with the drug treatment and non-drug treatment (family routine homework) for narcolepsy, and gradually restore daily life and social functions. Adopting narrative nursing on the basis of routine nursing can effectively improve depressive psychology and enhance the quality of life, which is of great significance for patients with narcolepsy accompanied by depression.

Narcolepsy; Depressed; Narrative nursing; Patients