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1. acuity assessment tools

   jeanne1n10 replied to jeanne1n10's topic in Psychiatric

   The Charge nurse assesses need/staffing before the beginning of each shift for the upcoming shift. The Orignial thread asked for a published acuity scale in use at your facillity relative to...

2. acuity assessment tools

   jeanne1n10 replied to jeanne1n10's topic in Psychiatric

   I don't know. maybe our pts are just more "out of control" and needy. we often have 3-7pts on 1:1 observation for fallrisk/prevention, medical instability (risk for seizure activity,) suicide...

3. acuity assessment tools

   jeanne1n10 replied to jeanne1n10's topic in Psychiatric

   I would be interested in how one "makes it work" with 35 pt - psych pts- and 2 techs. who facillitates activities? what kind of daily schedule do you employ for the pts treatment? what's the mix of...

4. acuity assessment tools

   jeanne1n10 replied to jeanne1n10's topic in Psychiatric

   What we're looking for is a published tool defining levels of acuity in psychiatric patients. Your list of 1 on 1 obs, SI, HI, AVOT hallucinations, eminent DC all apply at our facility but are not...

5. acuity assessment tools

   jeanne1n10 posted a topic in Psychiatric

   are there any current acuity assessment tools in practice where you work specifically related to psychaitric patient population? We're trying to quantify the acuity of our unit to collect data...

6. What Grossness Is Cool?

   jeanne1n10 replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

   Yall are fantastic! It's nice to see that being a little bent will come in handy in the