ATI Mental Health LOC  Alert: responsive, answer questions appropriately, opens eyes spontaneously.  Lethargic: open their eyes, can answer questions but easily falls asleep.  Stupor: barely responds to painful stimuli (like rubbing the patients’ stern

ATI Mental Health LOC  Alert: responsive, answer questions appropriately, opens eyes spontaneously.  Lethargic: open their eyes, can answer questions but easily falls asleep.  Stupor: barely responds to painful stimuli (like rubbing the patients’ sternum)  Comatose: unconscious/does not respond to painful stimuli  Decorticate: flexion/ internal rotation of upper extremities, joints and legs  Decerebrate: neck/elbows extension, wrist and finger flexion Torts: unintentional torts- negligence: forgetting to set the bed alarm for a patient who is at risk for falling and falls out of bed. Malpractice- giving the wrong medication to the patient, error that harms the patient. Intentional torts: Assault vs Battery:  Assault is if you threaten someone, “If you do not take this pill, I will smack you.”  Battery: when you actually hurt someone, “You actually act by smacking the patient.”  False imprisonment: Nurse will purposely restrain the patient or give them a chemical to a pt. for the nurse convenience, instead of doing alternatives techniques. Six Ethical Principles  Beneficence – Doing good by the patient, what is b