Psychosis due to her diagnosis of Bipolar

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A mother comes to the emergency room with her daughter Rose whose psychosis due to her diagnosis of Bipolar I, appears to be worsening. Rose started cursing and spitting at strangers, making her mother anxious and embarrassed. Rose's mother reports that her daughter is not taking her prescribed medications. Rose's mother would like the emergency room staff to give her daughter an injection of a long-acting anti-psychotic. Your first course of action is to do which of the following? (Bipolar and Related Disorders) Group of answer choices Ask the doctor on call if she would feel comfortable writing for a prescription for this Explain to Rose's mother that this is against the law, that her daughter has rights even if she has symptoms of psychosis Talk with Rose's mother about how the spitting and swearing started, what is most embarrassing to Rose's mother, and how the symptoms come and go (the course of Rose's symptoms).

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