Safety
Defined rules or limits that someone establishes to protect their security and wellbeing around others
What are boundaries?
“Hands on”, Blanket wraps, Chair alarms in Long Term Care, 4-side rails up
The nurse hides a patient's clothes to keep him from leaving.
What is an example of False Imprisonment?
SI/HI
What are Suicidal and Homicidal Ideation?
"Go on..."
What is a General Lead?
The instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away.
What is fight or flight?
Meeting of staff and eventually a patient to discuss what went well or needs improvement after a safety emergency.
What is a debriefing?
"If you don't sit down in the chair, I am going to put you in restraints!"
What is assault?
IEA
What is an Involuntary Emergency Admission?
What is a Broad Opening?
The reduction of the intensity of a conflict or potentially violent situation
What is de escalation?
Medication when used to manage a person’s behavior or restrict their freedom of movement. May not be ordered PRN
What is a Chemical Restraint?
Calming a patient using "talk therapy" instead of seclusion.
What is the right to the least restrictive alternative?
PMHN
"I love your drawing, I think you did a great job."
What is non-therapeutic, giving approval?
The amount of space that people feel it necessary to set between themselves and others.
What are Proxemics?
Restriction of a patient to an area where they cannot leave.
What is Seclusion?
The person threatens violence toward another individual and the nurse tells the individual.
What is an example of Duty to Warn?
SIB
When you change the subject to something completely unrelated to the topic a patient was discussing.
What is a Phantom Gate or non-therapeutic technique of Introducing an Unrelated Topic?
A continuous and unobstructed path of travel from any point in a building or structure to a public way.
What is a Line of Egress?
The paperwork needed for seclusion or restraint.
What are doctor's orders.
The nurse helps the doctor perform ECT on a patient that fails to give consent.
What is battery?
DBT
What is the acronym for Dialectical Behavioral Therapy?
"What I think you really mean is...."
What is an example of the non-therapeutic technique of Interpreting?