Title: Identify the guidelines for the management of client/resident/patient behavior across the lifespan.
Course: Nurse Aide I (14051-1) > Section: Understanding Individual Needs: Mental Health

Identification should include

- principles of behavior management
- strategies to reinforce or reduce behaviors
- an awareness of one’s own actions in relation to a client/resident/patient
- the reporting of unusual behavior to the charge nurse
- the documentation of unusual behavior.

Refer to Unit IX in Nurse Aide Curriculum, Virginia Board of Nursing, Virginia Department of Health Professions, 2018.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What is the importance of early recognition of unusual behaviors?
- What behavior modifications might be in a patient-centered care plan?