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You are completing a complete health assessment on a patient and you notice that there are indications that the patient may have been cutting herself. You inquire about the marks and she states that she fell and scratched her wrist when she tried to break her fall. How do you handle this information? Defend your rationale with references (APA format).

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Running head: SELF-INJURY

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Self-Injury
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SELF-INJURY

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Self-injury

From the response given by the patient, it is evident that the information about the fall is
not true. The first thing I would tell the patient is that she has a right for to ask for confidentiality
of the information about. I will, therefore, assure her that I would not report anything that she
tells would not be disclosed either to other clinician nor the authority. As such, I will encourage
her, to say the truth so that she can be given the care she needs (Po...


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