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AN OPEN LETTER to THE PRESIDENT & U.S. CONGRESS; STATE GOVERNORS & LEGISLATURES
Say NO to Loony-Bins: Immediate Action Required for Inpatient Psychiatric Care
2 so far! Help us get to 5 signers!
The current model of inpatient psychiatric care, which primarily focuses on safety and crisis stabilization, falls short in promoting sustained recovery. The prevalent emphasis on ultrashort lengths of stay often overlooks the need for comprehensive treatment plans.
A proposed model of care advocates for rapid diagnosis, goal-setting, and treatment modalities before initiating treatment, organized into three distinct phases: assessment, implementation, and resolution. This approach emphasizes individualized treatment and active patient involvement in treatment planning, addressing critical psychosocial aspects that are frequently neglected.
As we strive to reform the mental health care system, it's imperative to prioritize effective, recovery-oriented treatment strategies. This includes ensuring patient comfort and preferences are accommodated within reason. Considering patient preferences, like comfort items (such as safe stuffed animals; Share-Bears, if you will) and rescue medications (like melatonin,) is essential to upholding rigorous standards of care and safety.
Let's advocate for reforms that enhance patient-centered practices while adhering to established treatment guidelines and advancing recovery-oriented care.
Say no to “loony-bins;” those archaic relics that should be relegated to the distant past.
📱 Text SIGN PWORPV to 50409
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💘 Q'u lach' shughu deshni da. 🏹 "What I say is true" in Dena'ina Qenaga
Text SIGN PWORPV to 50409 to send this to your officials.
shouting into the void because I'm starting my first PSW placement this January and am nervous, it would be nice to find a few people to talk to who are maybe also starting a healthcare placement? anyway just a thought! Shout into the abyss and it might call back
One of the most common things we see through ER!
You can read more at vcahospitals.com!
Dr. Frederick Hund writes about what he learned from wilderness training about the practice of medicine: "Nowadays, palliative medicine teaches about transforming hope, from hope for cure to hope for meaning, resolution, perhaps even joy. As I talk to my dying patients, I often think of Jim celebrating beautiful twilight alone on his icy, dark ridge." Saturday, October 9, 2021, will be World Hospice and Palliative Care Day.
Sometimes the hardest practice in nursing means not aggressively advocating for your patient to live; but assertively advocating for them to Rest In Peace.
Topics they tentatively dance around in Nursing School
In a recent interview, Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, described how palliative care expertise and resources are, and can be, applied to the current crisis.
Check out this interview with Diane E. Meier on "Palliative Care for a Pandemic."