Judge Franklin says, This patient is fully able to care for herself. I recognize her need for psychological care but have decided that she should be placed in a halfway house rather than a state mental hospital. The judge's decision illustrates the principle of ____.
a. duty to warn
b. commitment based on dangerousness
c. right to refuse treatment
d. least restrictive form of treatment
Question 2
Besides being famous for murdering many people, what else do Jeffrey Dahmer, Seung Hui Cho, Eric Harris, and Dylan Klebold have in common?
a. Their aberrant thoughts and behaviors appear to have gone unrecognized or were ignored.
b. They were all teenagers when they committed their heinous acts.
c. They were all sexually abused by people they trusted when they were young.
d. All of them had previous criminal records.
Examples of Health Care Plans
Patient education
Patient teaching: nail assessment
Promoting Adherence in the Older Adult Patient
After multiple injections of a local anesthetic, the patient developed herpetic lesions.
Day Care and Attachment