Displays moderate anxiety and internal agitation

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You're a relief nurse working in the ER today and you've been assigned to a 25-year-old female patient named Ann Smith who is known to you from her admission just last night. Ann was oppositional, requesting and favouring a different nurse. Her affect is labile, she is dysregulated, denies perceptual disturbances or delusions but has passive suicidal ideation. She self-harms by means of cutting with two current horizontal open wounds on her left forearm. She has erratic behaviours voiced by colleagues, lost her job recently and has difficulties with relationships. She has presented with difficulties coping and alcohol misuse. On assessment, Ann is tremulous bilaterally, displays moderate anxiety, and internal agitation. How does the nurse help this patient?

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