Which individual with mental illness may need emergency or involuntary admission? The individual who:
a. resumes using heroin while still taking naltrexone (ReVia).
b. reports hearing angels playing harps during thunderstorms.
c. does not keep an outpatient appointment with the mental health nurse.
d. throws a heavy plate at a waiter at the direction of command hallucinations.
ANS: D
Throwing a heavy plate is likely to harm the waiter and is evidence of dangerousness to others. This behavior meets the criteria for emergency or involuntary hospitalization for mental illness. The behaviors in the other options evidence mental illness but not dangerousness. See related audience response question.
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