title: Nurse-aid management of psychiatric emergencies: 1.
abstract: Most nurses, irrespective of specialty, will be confronted with disturbed psychiatric patients. There are many forms of psychiatric emergency; this article examines nurse-aid management of acute confusional states, hallucinations, delusional thinking and suspiciousness and highlights interventions aimed at dealing with disturbed patients to avoid an immediate deterioration of the situation.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Burrow
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D003221:Confusion / Q000451:nursing*; D003702:Delusions / Q000451:nursing*; D004630:Emergencies; D005392:First Aid; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*