1. Introduction
This paper tends to critically look at the topic “Dilemma of Psychiatric Extend Lengths of Stay in the Emergency Department”. The critique highlights the reasons, the effects of the delayed stay of Psychiatric patients in the emergency rooms as well as the solutions. Psychiatry is a branch of science which deals with diagnostics, and treatments as well as prevention of illnesses concerned with mental, emotions and changes in behavior. A take home from such stay is that is majorly the risks and the costs associated with (Dennis & Swartz, 2015). Length of stay may be used as a measure of how effective a facility, concerned with such patients, is in terms of delivering the required treatments. Prolonged stays of psychiatric patients …show more content…
This has been manifested in the time taken by such staff in diagnosing and treating the patients once they are in their facilities. As a result, proper training for the medics and the staff handling these types of patients will be required if time is to be reduced in which they under care and treatments.
All the patients need not stay in the emergency rooms all the time. Once patients have been treated and are under observation, they can be transferred to other facilities or even inpatient rooms or sites. Such sites should only constitute on mental patients to reduce threats and intimidation which is associated with them. For instance, other types of patients are usually discharged home or even to inpatient facilities once treated. This has not been the case with many facilities leading to overcrowding adverse damages caused by them to the staff and the properties in general.
Insufficient funding and low quality equipment have also resulted to increased numbers of the psychiatric patients in the emergency rooms (Stephens, White, Cudnik, & Patterson, 2014). The staff handling the equipment’s have to be trained thoroughly on how to use them as well as procurement of up to date equipment. Governments and managements should allocate more resources to such facilities to reduce the time such patients stay in the emergency rooms while being …show more content…
This is not the case with other types of patients, as noted by many studies. There should be improved working modalities with both the insurance companies and the psychiatric facilities to reduce the extended lengths. The medics and the staff should be trained thoroughly on how to hand these patients as well as using the equipment. The psychiatric patients should be treated as other patients where they can allowed in inpatients facilities as they are being observed rather than staying in the emergency rooms all the time. Finally, sufficient funding should be availed to these facilities as well as modern and more efficient equipment. Reduced numbers will leads to reduced risks posed by such
This paper tends to critically look at the topic “Dilemma of Psychiatric Extend Lengths of Stay in the Emergency Department”. The critique highlights the reasons, the effects of the delayed stay of Psychiatric patients in the emergency rooms as well as the solutions. Psychiatry is a branch of science which deals with diagnostics, and treatments as well as prevention of illnesses concerned with mental, emotions and changes in behavior. A take home from such stay is that is majorly the risks and the costs associated with (Dennis & Swartz, 2015). Length of stay may be used as a measure of how effective a facility, concerned with such patients, is in terms of delivering the required treatments. Prolonged stays of psychiatric patients …show more content…
This has been manifested in the time taken by such staff in diagnosing and treating the patients once they are in their facilities. As a result, proper training for the medics and the staff handling these types of patients will be required if time is to be reduced in which they under care and treatments.
All the patients need not stay in the emergency rooms all the time. Once patients have been treated and are under observation, they can be transferred to other facilities or even inpatient rooms or sites. Such sites should only constitute on mental patients to reduce threats and intimidation which is associated with them. For instance, other types of patients are usually discharged home or even to inpatient facilities once treated. This has not been the case with many facilities leading to overcrowding adverse damages caused by them to the staff and the properties in general.
Insufficient funding and low quality equipment have also resulted to increased numbers of the psychiatric patients in the emergency rooms (Stephens, White, Cudnik, & Patterson, 2014). The staff handling the equipment’s have to be trained thoroughly on how to use them as well as procurement of up to date equipment. Governments and managements should allocate more resources to such facilities to reduce the time such patients stay in the emergency rooms while being …show more content…
This is not the case with other types of patients, as noted by many studies. There should be improved working modalities with both the insurance companies and the psychiatric facilities to reduce the extended lengths. The medics and the staff should be trained thoroughly on how to hand these patients as well as using the equipment. The psychiatric patients should be treated as other patients where they can allowed in inpatients facilities as they are being observed rather than staying in the emergency rooms all the time. Finally, sufficient funding should be availed to these facilities as well as modern and more efficient equipment. Reduced numbers will leads to reduced risks posed by such