Safety
Supervised with corded hygiene appliances and sharp objects.
What is suicide level II?
2 key elements to a successful therapeutic milieu.
What are:
Structure
Consistent expectation
Patients on antipsychotics require monitoring for movement disorders with this scale.
What is the AIMS scale?
Methods of initiating an involuntary civil commitment proceeding.
What are:
Law Enforcement Emergency Detention
Treatment Director Emergency Detention
Three Party Petition for Examination
The minimum space to maintain with a patient that is in the verbally aggressive stage.
What is 6 ft.
What is the top priority in milieu management to maintain at all times?
What is safety?
Patients on this medication need a weekly WBC due to risk of neutropenia.
What is Clozaril?
The number of court ordered evaluators for an alcohol commitment.
What is one?
Name 2 things to be assessed when patient having pass to ATU.
Can the patient tolerate meals, groups, activities.
Is there appropriate interactions.
Are other patients tolerating the patient on pass without anxiety and fear.
Is the patient open to having visits to ATU.
This medication is sometimes used as a mood stabilizer instead of Lithium and has a potential for liver toxicity.
What is Depakote?
The number of days that that the final hearing has to be scheduled within from the detention.
What is 14 days?
Security alert response is called. A number of staff rush down a hallway without the slightest idea of what to do once they arrive on the scene. What's missing?
What is a Team Leader.
Team Leader responsibilities:
Assess and plan intervention.
Responsible for directing and cuing the intervention.
Communicating with the patient.
A patient demonstrating manic behaviors gathered other patients in the dayroom and gave a sales talk, pressuring others to purchase shares of stock in a gold mine. Which element of a therapeutic environment is jeopardized?
a. Connection
b. Exploration
c. Structure
d. Balance
d. Balance
The patient is violating the rights of others by being allowed to give unsolicited discourses and exert pressure on others. Balance is lacking when patients are not protected from the symptom expression of other patients.
This drug carries a high risk for EPS, especially in young males.
What is Haldol?
The period of time for a settlement agreement to be in place.
What is up to 90 days?
A-HEART
Service recovery model.
Apologize
Hear
Empathize
Ask
Resolve
Thank
Key words at key times.
Give examples (words) of boundary/limit setting.
No, thank you.
That won't work for me.
When the call light is going off so frequently and I am running back and forth every few minutes it is difficult for me to meet your needs properly. Perhaps we can work something out together so that I can be more helpful.
When I am confronted by shouting I can't understand what you need. Let's discuss this quietly, I'd like to help.
When I hear abusive language/swearing I feel taken aback/hurt/upset. It is hard to listen to be helpful when I hear these kinds of words. I realize you are upset however lets start again.
This substance will cause a hypertensive crisis when taken with an MAOI.
What is tyramine?
Four possible outcomes of final hearing.
What are:
Case is dismissed.
Settlement agreement.
Commitment.
Conversion to guardianship/protective placement.