MSE
A comprehensive process involving a clinical interview and information gathering from a variety of sources in order to elicit information regarding suicidal ideation, plan, current and/or previous attempts, diagnoses, suicide risk and protective factors
What is a Suicide Risk Assessment?
Requires a registration number prior to administration.
What is Clozapine?
Your patient is unresponsive
What is a code blue?
Expires after 48 hours
What is the form 4.1 (First Medical Certificate)?
A persons thinking/speech wanders to unrelated topics without returning to the original point/question
What is tangential thought process?
4000mg/24 hours
What is the maximum dose of acetaminophen?
Your patient has decreased resps (7 resps/min) with cool clammy skin. Their pupils are constricted.
What is an overdose?
This leave from hospital requires a restart of certification dates if the patient has been in community for greater than 6 months and recalled, but does not require a restart of certification dates if the leave has been less than 6 months.
What is extended leave?
Involuntary imitation of another person's physical movements.
What is echopraxia?
This medication should always be checked against the patients weight vs the prescribers written dose to ensure accuracy.
What is Ketamine?
Your patient has severely cut themselves and they are significantly bleeding.
What is a CCOT?
This is the independent body that hears applications from involuntary patients who want a review of whether they continue to meet the criteria for certification.
What is a Mental Health Review Board? (Review Panel)
An involuntary walking pattern where a person takes increasingly rapid, short, and shuffling steps forward
What is festernating?
Taking _____ with lithium can cause lithium toxicity.
Your patient suddenly begins slurring their words, and is unable to answer basic questions. You have checked their glucose and it is within normal range.
What is Code Stroke
An involuntary patient has a right to request this if they want another physician to assess their psychiatric treatment.
What is a second medical opinion?
Delusional belief that thoughts have been taken out of the mind with no power/control over this.
What is thought withdrawal?
Benzodiazepines should not be given for 2 hours before or after the administration of IM ______.
What is Olanzapine
What is anaphylaxis
True or false: A form 17 is completed when an involuntary patient is discharged from hospital.
What is false.