- Always acting in the patient's best interest.
- Treating patients fairly regardless of their diagnosis.
- Avoiding harm to the patient.
- Respecting the patient's choices.
Category: BS Nursing
- Any staff member who asks for it.
- Family members upon their request.
- Members of the healthcare team directly involved in their care.
- The patient's friends.
- Ask about the content of the voices and assess for a plan.
- Tell the patient the voices are not real.
- Document the statement and wait for the doctor.
- Distract the patient with a television show.
- Increase the number of psychiatric beds.
- Promote discrimination against individuals with mental illness.
- Challenge negative stereotypes and encourage help-seeking.
- Focus solely on pharmacological treatments.
- Ignore the behavior, as it may calm down.
- Maintain a safe distance and use calm, clear verbal de-escalation techniques.
- Immediately call for physical restraints.
- Confront the patient aggressively to assert control.
- "Do you know where you are right now?"
- "What do you think is causing your current problems?"
- "How are you feeling today?"
- "What is the date and time?"
- Avoid withdrawal symptoms and prevent relapse.
- Promote weight gain.
- Increase energy levels only.
- Treat unrelated physical ailments.
- Arranging for immediate re-hospitalization.
- Ensuring adequate social support and community resources are in place.
- Discouraging medication adherence to foster independence.
- Limiting family involvement in care.
- Legally bind the patient from self-harm.
- Transfer responsibility for safety to the patient.
- Engage the patient in a verbal agreement to seek help when suicidal urges arise.
- Eliminate all suicidal thoughts.
- Confront the patient directly with reality.
- Focus on the underlying emotion rather than the delusion content.
- Argue with the patient to convince them otherwise.
- Humor the patient to build rapport.
- Restating.
- Reflecting.
- Paraphrasing.
- Clarifying.
- Solely relying on punishment for relapse.
- A multidisciplinary approach including therapy, support groups, and sometimes medication.
- Avoiding all social contact to prevent triggers.
- Limiting access to financial resources.
- Extrapyramidal symptoms.
- Anticholinergic side effects.
- Metabolic syndrome.
- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome.
- Family history of mental illness.
- Current suicidal ideation and plan.
- Social support system.
- Educational background.
- Anhedonia.
- Alogia.
- Avolition.
- Affective flattening.
- Administer oxygen via nasal cannula.
- Encourage rapid, shallow breathing.
- Coach them to breathe slowly and deeply into a paper bag.
- Offer a stimulant beverage.
- Feeling the same emotions as the patient.
- Objectively identifying and understanding the patient's feelings.
- Offering solutions to the patient's problems.
- Sharing personal experiences to build rapport.
- Thought broadcasting.
- Thought insertion.
- Thought withdrawal.
- Delusion of control.
- Complete blood count (CBC).
- Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH).
- Serum sodium level.
- Renal function tests (creatinine, BUN).
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