Symptoms/behaviors |
Hears voices. |
Does not eat, sleep, or bathe when at home. |
Fights with neighbors and talks to herself and to her deceased mother. |
Has paranoid feelings about her neighbors; feels threatened by them. |
Feels depressed. |
Was violent in the emergency room; threw a phone at staff; required injected medications to calm down. |
Elopement risk; trying doors and eloped to the elevator vestibule five days ago. |
Became agitated, assaulted security officer, and required seclusion yesterday. |
Is 18 weeks pregnant. |
What you should do to help the patient |
Encourage patient to eat and attend to activities of daily living. |
Reassure patient of her safety on the unit. |
Monitor in the bathroom; patient vomited two nights ago. |
When you should contact patient's nurse |
Patient is not following redirection. |
Patient states that she wants to hurt herself or someone else. |
Patient complains of pain. |