Typical Patient Support List Entries
| 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. |