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Emergency Department Treatment of the Psychiatric Patient Policy Issues and Legal Requirements

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Emergency Department Treatment of the Psychiatric Patient

Policy Issues and Legal Requirements

Susan Stefan

OUP USA

232 pages | 234x156mm

978-0-19-518929-2 | Hardback | 06 April 2006

Price: £40.00

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Only book of its kind to address emergency department care as it relates to the care of the psychiatric patient
Covers issues faced by both patients and emergency department professionals, and offers solutions to problems

Many hospital emergency departments are overcrowded and short-staffed, with a limited number of hospital beds. It is increasingly hard for emergency departments and their staff to provide the necessary level of care for medical patients. Caring for people with psychiatric disabilities raises different issues and calls on different skills.

In Emergency Department Treatment of the Psychiatric Patient, Dr Stefan uses research, surveys and statutory and litigation materials to examine problems with emergency department care for clients with psychiatric disorders. She relies on interviews with emergency department nurses, doctors and psychiatrists, as well as surveys of people with psychiatric disabilities to present the perspectives of both the individuals seeking treatment, and those providing it.

This eye-opening book explores the structural pressures on emergency departments and identifies the burdens and conflicts that undermine their efforts to provide compassionate care to people in psychiatric crisis. In addition to presenting a new analysis of the source of these problems, Dr Stefan also suggests an array of alternatives to emergency department treatment for people in psychiatric crisis. Moreover, the author proposes standards for treatment of these individuals when they do inevitably end up in a hospital emergency department.

Emergency Department Treatment of the Psychiatric Patient presents a thoughtful and thorough analysis of the difficulties faced by people with psychiatric disabilities when seeking emergency medical care. It is essential reading for anyone working in a hospital emergency department, as well as health care policy makers, and advocates and lawyers for people with psychiatric disabilities.

Readership: Healthcare administrators and first response providers; mental health professionals who work in emergency care departments

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Policy Issues and Legal Requirements

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