NURS 3554 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-5: Community Mental Health Act, Deinstitutionalisation, Telepsychiatry
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Continuum of psychiatric treatment: most acute treatment (short-term) Intensive outpatient treatment (usually short-term: transitional outpatient treatment (usually long-term, ongoing outpatient treatment (long-term) Prevention strategies: primary prevention, before it happens, prevent/stop symptoms, secondary prevention, reduce the number of prevalent cases, tertiary prevention, focuses on progression of disease. Psychiatric nursing in outpatient and community settings: strong problem-solving and clinical skills, cultural competence, flexibility, knowledge of community resources, autonomy, biopsychosocial assessment, case management, promoting continuation of treatment, teamwork and collaboration. Emergency care and crisis stabilization: comprehensive emergency service model, hospital-based consultant model, mobile crisis team model, crisis stabilization/observation units. Involuntary: does not want to stay in hospital: peer: police emergency exam request, pec: physician emergency certificate: based on exam deemed necessary. Multidisciplinary treatment team: members of each discipline are responsible for gathering data and participating in the planning of care, treatment plan or (cid:272)li(cid:374)i(cid:272)al path(cid:449)ay pro(cid:448)ides a guideli(cid:374)e for patie(cid:374)t"s (cid:272)are duri(cid:374)g hospital stay.
