Question

identify characteristics of psychiatric patients in the Emergency Department

Answer 1

Answer :

Psychiatric patient : the person who is suffering from mental health problems and emotional and behavioral disorders that person we can called as psychiatric patient.

Characteristics of psychiatric patient in the emergency department :

* depression and anxiety : these are mood swings or mood disorders, patient shows some times dull in activity and some times over in any activity.

* excessive fear and worries because of new environment, if he oriented the place, what happened to me and why you brought to hear like that he will ask.

* he is in confusion in thinking and decreased ability to concentrate on things what the doctors are telling and family members are telling.

* he will try to escape from there, because he dont want to stay there and nothing happens to me like that they will think.

* hallucination and illusions, they may show like feeling of something around them, and doing things by imagination, and they will say visually hallucinations like snake is there in your neck by seeing doctors stethoscope.

* tired ness and low energy levels they will show.

* disorientation will be there, they can't identify time, place, and person.

* inability cope up with the stress.

* they can't solve their problems and at least they won't listen, what we are saying.  

* they wont accept treatment.

* they won't allow to touch also.

* Beating of other, with what ever the things.

* they will remove the equipments what ever applied like oxygen saturation probe etc.

So we need continueous observations and we need to apply restraints up to control of that behavior, either by physical or chemical restraints by using sedative medications.