A client in crisis comes to a busy Emergency Department (ED) for help. The ED is crowded and has little available space. The best space for conducting the crisis assessment would be:
1. The corridor
2. The ED waiting room
3. An ED cubicle with a gurney and chair
4. A psychiatric interview room with a desk and chairs
ANS: 4
An interview room would provide privacy and safety. Such a room would not contain items that could be thrown or used to strike the interviewer and would, in most agencies, have an alarm system that could be used in the event the client lost control. Options 1 and 2 do not provide privacy. Option 3 would be inappropriate because the client would have to sit or lie on the gurney and because the medical equipment in the cubicle could be used to harm the interviewer.
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