Specialized services for psychiatric patients in the emergency department.
The care of the psychiatric patient in the emergency department offers yet another opportunity for emergency nurses to draw on specialty nursing resources or to create expanded roles for emergency practitioners themselves. As our emergency departments continue to encounter increasing numbers of patients, the need for concise and expeditious psychiatric consultation protocols becomes even more clear.
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D016529:Emergency Nursing; D004637:Emergency Services, Psychiatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans