A client has been involuntarily committed to the acute care
A client has been involuntarily committed to the acute care
A client has been involuntarily committed to the acute care psychiatric unit. During the delivery of the evening dinner trays, the client elopes from the unit, gets on a bus, and crosses into a neighboring state. Which nursing intervention is appropriate in this situation? 1. Call the psychiatric facility located in the neighboring state and have them try to involuntarily admit the client to their facility. 2. Notify the client’s physician, document the incident, and review elopement precautions. 3. Send a therapeutic assistant out to relocate the client and bring him or her back to the facility. 4. Notify the police in the neighboring state and have them pick the client up and readmit the client to the facility.
