NR 607 final exam Latest Question and
Answer | 100% Correct Solutions | Grade
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• Criteria for voluntary admission -✓✓ Patient consents to admission, meets
diagnostic criteria for a mental illness, and hospitalization is necessary for
stabilization or safety.
• Criteria for involuntary admission (psychiatric hold) -✓✓ Mental illness with
imminent danger to self or others, or inability to care for basic needs due to
psychiatric condition.
• Differences between voluntary vs. involuntary admission -✓✓ Voluntary =
patient requests/consents; Involuntary = legal mandate due to safety risks or
grave disability.
• Use of seclusion: when is it indicated? -✓✓ Last resort when less restrictive
interventions have failed and patient poses immediate danger.
• Ethical principle of informed consent -✓✓ Autonomy - respecting patient's right
to make decisions after being informed of benefits, risks, and alternatives.
• Exceptions to informed consent -✓✓ Emergencies, court orders, patient
incapacity (requires surrogate/guardian).
• Decision-making capacity: what are the 4 key elements? -✓✓ Understands
information, appreciates consequences, can reason about options, can
communicate a choice.
, • Civil commitment definition -✓✓ Legal process for hospitalizing/treating
individuals against their will when they pose a danger or cannot care for
themselves due to mental illness.
• When are restraints used? -✓✓ When a patient poses an immediate threat to
self/others and less restrictive measures have failed.
• Physical risk assessment includes what factors? -✓✓ Vital signs, medical
conditions, intoxication/withdrawal status.
• Environmental risk assessment includes what factors? -✓✓ Access to weapons,
unsafe surroundings, presence of others at risk.
• Early signs of aggressive behavior -✓✓ Increased agitation, pacing, loud voice,
clenched fists, threatening language.
• First step in managing escalating aggression -✓✓ Verbal de-escalation and
ensuring a safe environment.
• AEIOU TIPS categories for altered mental status -✓✓ Alcohol,
Epilepsy/Electrolytes/Endocrine, Insulin, Opiates, Uremia, Trauma/Temperature,
Infection, Poisoning/Psychiatric, Shock/Stroke.
• Key de-escalation techniques -✓✓ Calm voice, open body language, active
listening, offering choices, reducing stimulation.
Answer | 100% Correct Solutions | Grade
A+
• Criteria for voluntary admission -✓✓ Patient consents to admission, meets
diagnostic criteria for a mental illness, and hospitalization is necessary for
stabilization or safety.
• Criteria for involuntary admission (psychiatric hold) -✓✓ Mental illness with
imminent danger to self or others, or inability to care for basic needs due to
psychiatric condition.
• Differences between voluntary vs. involuntary admission -✓✓ Voluntary =
patient requests/consents; Involuntary = legal mandate due to safety risks or
grave disability.
• Use of seclusion: when is it indicated? -✓✓ Last resort when less restrictive
interventions have failed and patient poses immediate danger.
• Ethical principle of informed consent -✓✓ Autonomy - respecting patient's right
to make decisions after being informed of benefits, risks, and alternatives.
• Exceptions to informed consent -✓✓ Emergencies, court orders, patient
incapacity (requires surrogate/guardian).
• Decision-making capacity: what are the 4 key elements? -✓✓ Understands
information, appreciates consequences, can reason about options, can
communicate a choice.
, • Civil commitment definition -✓✓ Legal process for hospitalizing/treating
individuals against their will when they pose a danger or cannot care for
themselves due to mental illness.
• When are restraints used? -✓✓ When a patient poses an immediate threat to
self/others and less restrictive measures have failed.
• Physical risk assessment includes what factors? -✓✓ Vital signs, medical
conditions, intoxication/withdrawal status.
• Environmental risk assessment includes what factors? -✓✓ Access to weapons,
unsafe surroundings, presence of others at risk.
• Early signs of aggressive behavior -✓✓ Increased agitation, pacing, loud voice,
clenched fists, threatening language.
• First step in managing escalating aggression -✓✓ Verbal de-escalation and
ensuring a safe environment.
• AEIOU TIPS categories for altered mental status -✓✓ Alcohol,
Epilepsy/Electrolytes/Endocrine, Insulin, Opiates, Uremia, Trauma/Temperature,
Infection, Poisoning/Psychiatric, Shock/Stroke.
• Key de-escalation techniques -✓✓ Calm voice, open body language, active
listening, offering choices, reducing stimulation.
