- Engage in a philosophical debate about the delusions
- Ensure the safety of the patient and others, and consider de-escalation or rapid tranquilization
- Encourage the patient to act on the hallucinations
- Ignore the delusions, as they are not real
Category: BS Nursing
- Restrain the patient to prevent injury
- Insert an oral airway
- Protect the patient from injury, loosen clothing, and time the seizure
- Force objects into their mouth to prevent tongue biting
- "You're right, I don't."
- "Tell me more about what you mean by that, so I can better understand."
- "That's not true, I understand perfectly."
- "Perhaps you're not expressing yourself clearly."
- Apply physical restraints
- Lock all doors on the unit
- Identify triggers for wandering and provide alternative, safe activities or structured engagement
- Administer a sedative to keep them in bed
- Deltoid muscle
- Ventrogluteal muscle
- Vastus lateralis muscle
- Dorsogluteal muscle
- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS)
- Tardive Dyskinesia
- Serotonin Syndrome
- Hypertensive Crisis
- Dismiss their fears and tell them it's a routine surgery
- Acknowledge their anxiety, provide factual information, and offer relaxation techniques
- Tell them to pray and trust the doctors
- Advise them to cancel the surgery
- Inform the patient that you are fine
- Wash the exposed area thoroughly with soap and water, report the incident, and follow institutional post-exposure protocol
- Document the incident later in the day
- Cover the wound with a bandage and continue working
- Myocardial Infarction
- Aortic Dissection
- Pneumonia
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan
- Signs, Outcomes, Actions, Progress
- Symptoms, Observations, Aims, Procedures
- Standard, Objective, Analysis, Presentation
- Long-acting beta-agonist (LABA)
- Inhaled corticosteroid
- Short-acting beta-agonist (SABA)
- Oral antibiotic
- Obtain consent from the patient anyway
- Obtain consent from the patient's family members only
- Ensure the patient has the capacity to understand and make a decision, or seek alternative consent from a legal guardian/proxy
- Proceed with the procedure without consent
- Personality disorders
- Cognitive impairment
- Mood disorders
- Substance use disorders
- Take the temperature immediately
- Wait 15-30 minutes before taking the temperature
- Take a rectal temperature instead
- Add 2 degrees to the reading
- Medication non-adherence
- Fluid volume overload
- Acute kidney injury
- Hypoglycemia
- Normal side effects of Lithium
- Lithium toxicity
- Onset of a new viral infection
- Hypoglycemia
- Maintain confidentiality as per general client-therapist privilege
- Report to the appropriate child protective services agency
- Advise the client to seek legal counsel
- Encourage the client to stop the behavior on their own
- 15 degrees
- 30 degrees
- 45 degrees
- 90 degrees
- At least 1 inch (2.5 cm)
- At least 2 inches (5 cm)
- No more than 1 inch (2.5 cm)
- At least 4 inches (10 cm)
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