Which of the following would the psychiatric nurse assess as a behavioral crisis? A client is
a. found crying hysterically after receiving a phone call from her boyfriend.
b. noted curled up in a corner of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around her
head.
c. performing push-ups in the middle of the hall, forcing everyone to walk around
him.
d. waving his fists and shouting threats at a nurse who offered him prn medication.
ANS: D
This behavior constitutes a behavioral crisis because the client is threatening harm to another
individual. Intervention is called for to defuse the situation. The other options speak of behaviors
that may require intervention of a less urgent nature because the clients in question are not
threatening harm to self or others.
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