Bedside reporting in psychiatric units

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I'm looking for information about bedside reporting in psychiatric units. Anyone out there currently doing it? How are confidentiality issues handled in double rooms? What about information that will be traumatizing for patient to hear repeated several times daily (ie. brought in by police floridly psychotic, assaulted wife, u-tox positive for PCP, the list goes on.....)

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

Never heard of it, and I"m really not sure why in the world it would be considered a good idea. Maybe on gero-psych units or brain injury units, where you would possibly have a lot of bedridden patients or patients who... quite frankly really don't have a clue what is going on and don't care much about HIPAA or who in the room hears or discusses their information.

Most psych patients... even if the unit that they are on has private rooms... I can't imagine why bedside reports would be appropriate.

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BAD IDEA

all patients are entitld to dignity

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

I agree, I was just trying to actually come up with a situation in which it MIGHT be even remotely appropriate.

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I work at a Michigan Hospital in psychiatry. We are imiplementing it. I'll try to come back and let you know how it goes.

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I only know about reporting in the patients room from an ICU standpoint. The neuro and physical assessments, etc. are done in tandem at shift change-to make sure everyone is on the same page during re-assessments on their shifts.

otessa

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Why are the majority of your psych pts in bed?!

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