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Behavioral Emergency
- Abnormal behavior(actions)
- During assessment, pay attention to:
- -general appearance
- -speech
- -skin
- -posture or gait
- -orientation
- -memory
- -awareness
- -body language
- -perception
- -mood
- -judgement
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Anxiety
A state of painful uneasiness.
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Phobias
An irrational fear of specific things, places, or situations
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Depression
Deep feeling of sadness, worthlessness, and discouragement
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Bipolar Disorder
Wide swings between depression and elation; manic depressive disorder
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Paranoia
A highly exaggerated or unwarrented mistrust or suspisciousness
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Psychosis
A state of delusion in which a person is out of touch with reality.
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Schizophrenia
A group of mental disorders characterized by distortions of the speech and thought, delusions, hallucinations, social withdrawal, and lack of emotional expressiveness.
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Suicide
A willful act designed to end one's own life.
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Agitated Delirium
A mental and physiological state of arousal usually characterized by extreme strength and endurance, tolerance to pain, hostility, and hyperactive behavior; also called excited delirium.
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Humane Restraints
Padded soft leather or cloth straps used to tie a patient down to keep him from hurting himself or others
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Reasonable Force
The minimum amount of force required to keep a patient from injuring himself or others.
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