Reference no: EM133865072
Questions:
1. What are potential safety risks for the adult developmental safety stage?
2. Choose a 2021 Behavioral Health Care and Human Services National Patient Safety Goal. Please write a few sentences on why you think the Joint Commission created that goal.
3. Explain why assessing a patient's mental status/behavior is different from a head to toe assessment.
4. The nurse uses the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale to assess their patient. The patient replies "yes" to question 2 but "no" to the remaining questions. According to the risk scale, what level risk is the patient at? What interventions are recommended.
5. How does the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment Scale (CIWA) help the nurse in their ongoing assessment? What would types of treatment would the nurse expect to implement for a patient with a high score (i.e. medications, precautions, nursing interventions)?
6. What is a patient restraint? When would they be indicated?
7. What are some alternative options to applying restraints?
8. After restraints are applied, what would the nurse include in their assessment?
9. What the ANA Board of Director's Position statement recommend to reduce the use of patient restraints?
10. What should the nurse assess when applying soft restraints?
11. How often must a restraint order be renewed for the management of a violent or self-destructive behavior? What happens after the initial order is 24 hours old?
12. What type of knot should be tied when applying soft restraints? Where should the restraints be secured?
13. What should the nurse document related to the application of patient restraints?