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5 Criteria for admission and detention as an involuntary patient? (Cam 755)
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1. Mental illness that requires urgent treatment while detained in an inpatient setting
2. Safety of patient or fot the protection of the others 3. Unable or refuse to consent to voluntary admission 4. Appropriate treatment must be available & cannot be given in a less restrictive setting 5. Protect self inflicted harm to patient's reputation, relationship or finances (in WA and NSW) |
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Which is wrong in VIc mental health system? (Cam 757)
a) Request and Recommendation can be completed by the same doctor b) Any person over 18yr can complete the request c) The recommendation is valid for 3 days after completion d) The recommending doctor must have personally examined or observed the patient e) Once admitted, patient must be seen by a registered psychiatrist within 24 hours |
a) The request cannot be completed by the recommended doctor
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Vic mental health act donot permit:
a) sedation medication by "prescribed medical practitioner" to allow for safe transport of a patient to a mental health service b) restraint of involuntary patients for the purposes of medical treatment c) restraint to prevent injury or persistent property destruction d) Ambulance to use restraint to transport patient without recommdation docurmented |
d) Cam 758
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