A 15-year-old female is brought by her mother to see an advanced practice psychiatric mental health nurse. The mother demands that her daughter be admitted for treatment of behavior problems.
The mother says her daughter stays out until 4 a.m. and is hanging out with bad kids. The nurse should recommend:
1. Involuntary commitment
2. That the mother begin therapy
3. That the mother and daughter agree to outpatient therapy
4. That the mother take the daughter for emergency admission
Question 2
A client with paranoid thinking has refused his morning dose of fluphenazine (Prolixin). Another client says, You better take your medicine, or else they will throw you into the seclusion room and take away all your clothes.
Other clients murmur apprehensively. The nurse decides that the clients need information. Which of the following items should be addressed first?
1. Right to treatment
2. Purposes of seclusion
3. Commitment procedures
4. Advice on how to get discharged from the hospital
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