A patient residing in a long-term care facility has been experiencing restlessness and has often been found by nursing staff wandering in and out of other patients' rooms during the night
The nurse views the patient's PRN antipsychotic medication order as:
a. an appropriate intervention to help assure his safety.
b. an option to be used only when all other nondrug interventions prove ineffective.
c. inappropriate unless the physician is noti-fied and approves its use.
d. not an option because it should not be used to manage behaviors of this type.
D
Reasons for the use of antipsychotic drugs do not include behaviors such as restlessness, insom-nia, yelling or screaming, inability to manage the resident, or wandering. The staff must provide nondrug alternatives to help calm the patient.
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