Overdose Prevention
This opiate is 100 times as potent as fentanyl, and 5000 times as potent as heroin.
What is Carfentanyl?
This is the best time to share information regarding a patient that may be at risk for suicidality.
What is immediately?
An unplanned event or occurrence that causes an emotional response.
What is a trigger?
Patient rounding is conducted at these two time intervals.
What is:
Detox - 30 minutes
Residential - 60 minutes
This crucial step in the 12 steps deals with powerlessness and unmanageability.
What is Step One?
This system in the body is highly impacted by opiates.
What is the respiratory system?
Self-directed behavior that results in injury or potential for injury; there is no evidence, implicit or explicit, of suicidal intent.
What is non-suicidal self injurious behavior?
This rear part of the human brain controls our fight/flight response.
What is the Amygdala?
The people responsible for patient safety at RCA.
Who is everyone?
This is the picture you are walking towards if you are on the first floor headed from the elevator towards Unit 7 and the gym.
What is JFK Sunset Lodge?
There are many risk factors for opiate overdose. Name Two.
What is: opiates cut into other drugs, Using after abstinence, New dealer, New city, New route of administration, Medical conditions, Age?
Substance Use, Mental Illness, and Trauma are examples of these factors.
What are suicide risk factors?
Type of communication that involves tone of voice and rate of speech.
What is para-verbal communication?
When doing rounds, you enter a room where a patient is sleeping. You must be able to observe this.
What is the rise and fall of their chest 3 times to check for life sustaining breathing.
Roughly 82% of RCA patients suffer from these. Just another reason to be prescriptive in our approach to patient care.
What are co-occurring disorders?
Good Samaritan laws, that vary by state provide these protections.
What are protection from liability and the ability to report an overdose without being arrested?
Supportive relationships and future orientation are examples of these factors.
What are suicide protective factors?
The three phases of escalation where our verbal de-escalation skills are most effective.
What are: calm, trigger, and agitation?
One very important reason that we keep eyes on all patients during a fresh air break is the increased risk of this occurring.
What is an acute OR post-acute seizure.
You may have heard your trainer say this several times this week:
"Addiction is a disease of isolation. recovery is dependent upon this."
What is connection?
This is the second of 5 steps for Narcan administration.
What is check breathing status (look, listen, and feel)?
This diagnostic tool is used by RCA to assess for suicidality.
What is The Columbia Suicide Risk Assessment Scale?
This plan that gets agreed upon by a clinician and a patient helps to handle difficult situations in a better way in the future.
What is a Treatment Enhancement Agreement?
Perhaps one of the quickest ways to be terminated from your position at RCA.
What is falsifying rounds?
A picture of tacos is found in this live presentation.
What is verbal de-escalation?
Bonus 1200 pts. - What does it stand for?