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A 46-year-old woman was admitted as a voluntary patient to an authorised psychiatric hospital in Perth three days ago with a severe depressive episode. This morning she puts on her coat and says she is going home because there is no point. Nursing staff find a letter to her children in her locker and eight quetiapine tablets taped under the drawer. She will not say what she intends to do at home. The consultant is at an off-site clinic. You are the resident. Which one of the following actions should be undertaken first?
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