The 15-year-old patient is hospitalized after harming herself when her mother would not let her use her cell phone. While she is awaiting inpatient psychiatric placement, she repeatedly expresses a desire to leave. Which intervention is most helpful to prevent the patient from eloping?

The elderly patient with moderate Alzheimer’s disease was brought to the emergency department (ED) for rapidly worsening mental status, fever, and anorexia over the last 24 hours. Portable chest x-ray shows a consolidation in the left lower lobe.Which diagnosis is most accurate?

The patient with schizophrenia has refused medication for several days. When the nurse attempts to administer the medication he responds, "I don’t need this. Give it to somebody who has a mental disorder." The nurse suspects which condition?