title: Psychiatric emergency service expands to serve total hospital.
abstract: A hospital with a comprehensive psychiatric service provides a nearby general hospital with staff and backup for psychiatric consultations, crisis intervention, concurrent psychiatric care of medical-surgical patients, follow-up for psychiatric hospitalization or referrals, and staff education. Personnel include senior psychiatrists and on-call residents, and the program relies heavily on use of psychiatric nursing clinical specialists and RNs with experience in psychiatric nursing.
mesh_terms: D003419:Crisis Intervention; D004637:Emergency Services, Psychiatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006755:Hospital Shared Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008824:Michigan; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D000078329:Workforce