Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability Tool (START) - RNAO Appendix F
This tool evaluates the client risk and treatability related (i.e. violence, self-harm, suicide, absconding, substance use, self-neglect, and victimization).
Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. (2012). Appendix F of Promoting Safety: Alternative Approaches to the Use of Restraints. Toronto, Canada: Author. (pp. 97-98).
Reprinted with permission from British Columbia Mental Health & Addiction Services
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