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A patient holds a knife to his throat and tells a family member that voices in his head are telling him to kill himself. The patient may be admitted to the psychiatric unit under which type of admission?
1. Commitment
2. Temporary admission
3. Observational admission
4. Emergency involuntary admission

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High-Acuity Nursing

Edition: 6^th

Authors: Wagner, Hardin-Pierce

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