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A 21-year-old man is brought to a regional emergency department at 2 am by police after he was found standing on a freeway overpass. He says a voice has been telling him for a week to go over the rail and that it has been getting louder. He is now seated, calm and cooperative, and accepts a sandwich. One nurse is on duty, the psychiatric registrar is forty minutes away, and the cubicle he is in opens directly onto the ambulance bay. All of the actions below will be carried out tonight. Which one should be done first?
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