Call the patient X. So X on our unit for a week with intermittent psychotic breaks of delusions, responding to hallucinations, labiliry, psychomotor restlessness, and paranoia.
X behavior is tough to predict aa some days can be perfectly normal.
Tried to fight staff, but shortly after forgets why he tried to fight staff and superficially pleasant.
Tried to leave our locked unit 2 to 3 times. Tried to flip a computer and history of entering other patient's rooms.
So X is sporadic with medication sone days takes it, sone days cheeks it, and some days just so it's it out.
So X was in desperate need of medication took a lot of prompting by staff and security. Xs behavior was getting to the point of an injection
Due to Xs prior behavior we took off chairs, computers, and on my own accord the chair/dresser in Xs room.
X responded well to medication. X had a family member visit going well and then things got interesting. X began to perseverate on Xs dresser. Entering others patents rooms and trying to fight staff. X ended up in restraints with more medication.
Question is trying to think if leaving the dresser in the room could of avoided this. Xs behavior is so erratic could of used it as a weapon against us. Also X was in such a state of psychosis that X would have difficulty processing the information or trigger X.
Feedback?
One fellow coworker thought shouldn't have taken Xs dresser as this was the cause of the next level of aggressiion with X.
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Call the patient X. So X on our unit for a week with intermittent psychotic breaks of delusions, responding to hallucinations, labiliry, psychomotor restlessness, and paranoia.
X behavior is tough to predict aa some days can be perfectly normal.
Tried to fight staff, but shortly after forgets why he tried to fight staff and superficially pleasant.
Tried to leave our locked unit 2 to 3 times. Tried to flip a computer and history of entering other patient's rooms.
So X is sporadic with medication sone days takes it, sone days cheeks it, and some days just so it's it out.
So X was in desperate need of medication took a lot of prompting by staff and security. Xs behavior was getting to the point of an injection
Due to Xs prior behavior we took off chairs, computers, and on my own accord the chair/dresser in Xs room.
X responded well to medication. X had a family member visit going well and then things got interesting. X began to perseverate on Xs dresser. Entering others patents rooms and trying to fight staff. X ended up in restraints with more medication.
Question is trying to think if leaving the dresser in the room could of avoided this. Xs behavior is so erratic could of used it as a weapon against us. Also X was in such a state of psychosis that X would have difficulty processing the information or trigger X.
Feedback?
One fellow coworker thought shouldn't have taken Xs dresser as this was the cause of the next level of aggressiion with X.