• Explain your Texas state laws for involuntary psychiatric holds for child and adult psychiatric emergencies. Include who can hold a patient and for how long, who can release the emergency hold, and who can pick up the patient after a hold is released.
• Explain the differences between emergency hospitalization for evaluation/psychiatric hold and inpatient and outpatient commitment in Texas.
• Explain the difference between capacity and competency in mental health contexts.
• Explain one legal issue and one ethical issue related to EMTALA that may apply within the context of treating psychiatric emergencies.
• Identify one evidence-based suicide risk assessment that could be used to screen patients.
• Identify one evidence-based violence risk assessment that could be used to screen patients.