- Any patient expresses anger.
- A patient threatens to harm themselves.
- A patient threatens to harm a specifically identified third party.
- A patient refuses medication.
Category: BS Nursing
- The presence of crying.
- The duration and pervasive functional impairment.
- The lack of appetite.
- The expression of anger.
- Gain attention from staff.
- Avoid anxiety and distress.
- Maintain cleanliness.
- Punish themselves for past mistakes.
- Achieving long-term sobriety immediately.
- Managing withdrawal symptoms and ensuring safety.
- Initiating family therapy for co-dependency.
- Obtaining a full psychosocial history.
- Protect the nurse from patient manipulation.
- Maintain a therapeutic distance and focus on patient needs.
- Limit the patient's access to the nurse.
- Prevent emotional involvement with the patient.
- Detailed nutritional assessment.
- Current medication list, especially cardiac and anticonvulsant drugs.
- Long-term memory recall.
- Patient's understanding of the exact mechanism of ECT.
- Hypertension.
- Weight gain.
- Agranulocytosis.
- Constipation.
- "Are you feeling trapped?"
- "What makes you feel like you're in a cage?"
- "It sounds like you're feeling confined and restricted."
- "You're not really in a cage."
- Fill the silence with their own thoughts and feelings.
- Feel ignored and frustrated.
- Recognize the nurse's lack of interest.
- Be forced to answer questions quickly.
- Provide constant praise regardless of effort.
- Encourage participation in group therapy without preparation.
- Help the patient identify and achieve small, realistic goals.
- Focus on past failures to motivate change.
- Serum lithium level of 0.8 mEq/L.
- Serum sodium level of 140 mEq/L.
- Serum lithium level of 1.6 mEq/L.
- Serum potassium level of 4.0 mEq/L.
- Agree with the patient to build rapport.
- Challenge the patient's negative self-talk directly.
- Validate their feelings and explore contributing factors.
- Distract them with a different topic.
- Visual hallucination.
- Auditory hallucination.
- Delusion of persecution.
- Somatic hallucination.
- Encourage the patient to relive the memory to process it.
- Promptly medicate the patient to induce sleep.
- Orient the patient to the present reality and assure safety.
- Ask the patient to describe the traumatic event in detail.
- Maintaining patient confidentiality.
- Telling the truth and being honest.
- Treating all patients fairly.
- Promoting the patient's well-being.
- "What would you do if you found a wallet full of money?"
- "What is the capital of Pakistan?"
- "Who is the current Prime Minister?"
- "Can you spell 'world' backwards?"
- Allow the behavior to continue to avoid escalating the patient.
- Remove the patient from the group immediately without explanation.
- Gently remind the patient of group rules and consequences if behavior continues.
- Ignore the behavior, hoping it will stop.
- Countertransference.
- Transference.
- Resistance.
- Projection.
- Address underlying body image distortions.
- Restore nutritional balance and healthy weight.
- Encourage social interaction.
- Facilitate family therapy sessions.
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