Does anyone know where i can find the definition of an in patient within the mental health act manuals?
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I am not sure what you are actually asking.  Are you asking to find the definition to work out whose patient it is?  Whenever we have a patient who "overlaps" different facilities,  responsibilty for the administration is shared but treatment responsibility lies with where the client is actually located.\n\nI think that this should help\nhttp://www.direct.gov.uk/DisabledPeople/HealthAndSupport/YourRightsInHealth/HealthRightsArticles/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4014771&chk=jVhUS1\n\nor this\nhttp://www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidanceArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4133839&chk=RJV7mg
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I'm a registered nurse in the UK, nursing care plans are hand written, health care assistants can write in them but a counter signature is required by the trained nurse, we write everything in their, how the patients wash (by themselves or with help) what the doctors say on their ward round or what OT or physios say, is the patient has refused meds, or any care that has to be wrote down, as this is classed as a legal document, for example a patient could refuse medication but then say you haven't given to him, so if it's wrote down theirs proof whats happened, we need it to cover our own back.\n    There's also fluid charts in the care plan, food charts if a patient has seizures there's fit chats, drug chats.
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It depends mainly on two things: what kind of social worker are they, and what are the licensing requirements in your locality. If you're talking about a licensed clinical social worker in a locality that regulates such titles, then they're independent mental health professionals with the training, experience, and (hopefully) ability to diagnose and treat mental disorders. \n\nOther than licensed clinical social workers, however, social workers have a huge variety of roles and what they do and what expectations they're expected to live up to vary depending on where they work.
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I think I know what you mean... when a patient has "completed" short term "emergency" based "treatment" at a mental health facility they must leave to make room for more "emergency" cases. \nthese patients have no other options (unless they are independantly wealthy or their insurance covers treatment options for the specific type of disorder or illness. \nso, if you are a patient who has been released from a mental institution/facility, but if neither of these apply to you, then you can only go back to where you were before the "emergency" in your life happened. \nit's true that some people who leave mental health facilities didn't want to be there and don't wish to seek treatment... or that some people who leave wish to seek further treatment only for attention and don't intend to actually work with a mental health professional to get a plan for their lives and move forward and put positive action into play to cause change... \nbut the ones who WANT that positive change in their lives and who are willing to WORK to get that change don't seem to have the option from my experience. \nwe could have clinics where patients (who actually want to, and will work to be as productive and happy as they are able to be) can go to seek continued treatment after being discharged. \nthe patients who are able, yet not willing to seek treatment can't be dealt with until their behavior lands them in jail, unfortunately. we can't change that because their illness or refusal to seek treatment isn't an actual punishable crime. \nif treatment were not as difficult to get, more might seek it. then we'd be able to sort out who simply refuses to be treated and do something to make them pay consequinses such as pick up trash, cut grass, and such. until we are able to provide every willing patient with care and treatment, there isn't a way to know which patients are truly willing and which ones are not. \nresources are available for newly discharged patients, but then again the patient has to have a way to pay for these services. setting aside money to pay to workers (who'd be in charge of patient follow up calls or visits for a few weeks after discharged would be my best idea for beginning a plan to deal with this issue. but where would this money come from? \nthe united states has "after care"... \nunfortunately if you need long term care you eventually get dropped from the program because they need space for others (some of whom aren't going to stick with the program and will drop out willingly) or because they can't afford you anymore (if you are a "free care" or "percentage-income" patient). i do think after care is a good start to finding a better answer though.
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Not a PC word. They call em Behavioral Health Hospitals. I have been in 2, as an employee. Love all of my patients, even the challenging ones. I have not seen a straight jacket...........ever! Hope you didn't hurt yourself, or anyone else.
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Until now assignment descriptions have been loosely based on old Whitley grades; but hundreds of different role descriptions are used in Trusts across the country. This is unfair and contrary to the principle of equal pay for work of equal value that lies at the heart of Agenda for Change. Our new system of classifying assignments provides national consistency.\n\nOur challenge was to design a system that met the needs of all our partner Trusts while at the same time being simple enough for everyone to understand. We have done this by using the national role profiles that have emerged from the implementation of Agenda for Change in Trusts. Although they may not match exactly the job titles in every Trust we are sure they will be familiar to you.\n\nThe assignment types, their codes and a brief description of each are set out in the table below.\n\n\nAssignment Type  Short Code Description \nCare Support Worker CSW Undertakes personal care duties. Reports patient condition to qualified staff. \nCare Support Worker Higher CSWH More senior Care Support Worker often qualified to NVQ level 3 or equivalent. Undertakes a range of delegated clinical health duties including reporting patient information. \nNurse Associate Practitioner ASP Implements care, records clinical observations, contributes to the assessment of care needs, and carries out certain nursing procedures such as re-catheterisation, taking blood samples, administering injections. Qualified to foundation degree level or equivalent. Reports to a registered nurse. \nNursery Nurse  NN Implements neo-natal care packages to sick infants under the supervision of midwives and nurses. Teaches parent craft to parents and carers of the infants in the unit. \nRegistered Nurse RN Practitioner holding current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Responsible for assessing patients, planning and implementing care, and maintaining records. \nTheatre Practitioner TP Practitioner responsible for assessing, developing, implementing, and evaluating programmes of care for patients undergoing theatre procedures. Qualified to diploma, degree or equivalent level in operating department practice. \nNurse Team Leader NTL Registered nurse responsible for providing clinical and managerial to nurses and support staff. \nRegistered Midwife RM Practitioner holding appropriate current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Responsible for assessing care needs, developing, implementing and evaluating care for women and their babies throughout the ante-natal, intra-partum and post-natal periods. \nTheatre Practitioner Higher Level TPHL Theatre practitioner responsible for providing clinical and managerial supervision to theatre staff. \nCommunity Psychiatric Nurse CPN Practitioner holding appropriate current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Responsible for assessing mental health patients, planning, implementing and assessing their programmes of care, liaising with other agencies as appropriate, and for providing specialist advice in the community  \nHealth Visitor HV  Practitioner holding appropriate current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Responsible for assessing clients, planning and implementing care, and maintaining records. Works with families with specific health and social needs, runs child health clinics and provides clinical supervision to other staff and students. \nNurse Team Manager NTM  Registered Nurse responsible for managing a ward or equivalent unit of service delivery. Responsible for staff management including: rotas, recruitment and selection, appraisal and performance management. May hold and manage a budget. \nNurse Advanced NAD  Registered nurse who is a lead specialist in a defined area of nursing care. Responsible for assessing patients, planning and implementing their care, and for providing specialist advice and training in their specialist area. \nMidwife Team Manager MTM  Registered Midwife responsible
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To be sectioned one must suffer from mental illness (not defined in the Mental Health Act 1983), mental impairment, severe mental impairment or psychopathic disorder, all of which conditions are linked to violent or aggressive behaviour. Sometimes people are detained for their own safety, as for instance when they are threatening suicide.  Alternatively they may be seen as representing a risk to others.  Because formerly there was a great deal of abuse of mental health legislation and it was used to detain people who had given birth to illegitimate children, the Act specifically rules out detention on grounds of immoral behaviour.  The scope of the Act is wide and the range of possibilities is wide, but basically to be sectioned one must have displayed a dangerous degree of aggression and two mental health practitioners must agree that it is necessary to detain the patient for purposes of assessment.
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The American Hospital Association can probably help you. See http://www.aha.org/aha/index.jsp
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As to the first part of your question, I'm not sure a five year waiting period is accurate:\n\nCal Wel & Inst Code § 8100 (2006)\n\n§ 8100.  Possession of firearm by patient with mental disorder; Waiting period for patients threatening physical violence\n\n   (a) A person shall not have in his or her possession or under his or her custody or control, or purchase or receive, or attempt to purchase or receive, any firearms whatsoever or any other deadly weapon, if on or after January 1, 1992, he or she has been admitted to a facility and is receiving inpatient treatment and, in the opinion of the attending health professional who is primarily responsible for the patient's treatment of a mental disorder, is a danger to self or others, as specified by Section 5150, 5250, or 5300, even though the patient has consented to that treatment. A person is not subject to this subdivision once he or she is discharged from the facility.\n \nThat says that as soon as a person is released/discharged, the law no longer applies.  And that is for violent patients.  I can't find anything about a waiting period.  Besides, as stated above, the five year period is up, so don't sweat it.\n\nIf you do apply for a license, permit, etc, disclose everything.  You can get in more trouble for lying.
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There are four distinct subcategories of mental disorder stipulated in Section 1 of the Act - mental illness, mental impairment, severe mental impairment and psychopathic disorder.\n\nThese categories are not well defined in the Act, indeed, mental illness is not defined at all. Mental impairment is defined as "a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind ... which includes significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning and is associated with abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the person concerned". Severe mental impairment has a similar definition but with the word "significant" replaced with "severe". Psychopathic disorder is defined as a "persistent disorder or disability of mind (whether or not including significant impairment of intelligence) resulting in abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct".\n\nThese categories do not necessarily correspond to medical categories of mental disorder such as those outlined in ICD-10 or DSM-IV; the type of mental disorder afflicting a particular person is very much left up to the clinical judgement of the individual doctor. However, the category "mental illness" is thought by most psychiatrists to cover schizophrenia, anorexia nervosa, major depression, bipolar disorder and other similar illnesses, "(severe) mental impairment" to cover mental retardation (learning disability) and "psychopathic disorder" to cover the personality disorders.\n\nThere are very few exclusions to these definitions of mental disorder. The Act states that one cannot be suffering from a mental disorder "by reason only of promiscuity or other immoral conduct, sexual deviancy or dependence on alcohol or drugs".
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It is not your fault.  Once you are "labeled" with a mental illness, people unfortunately make assumptions about you.  The Rosenhan experiement is a great study on examining the impact of being labeled with a mental illness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment \n(In the study, "normal" people are admitted to psych wards based on the complaint of hearing voices.  Once admitted they no longer claim to hear voices and act as they normally would.  However, because they already had been labeled, it took an average of 19 days for each patient to be discharged from the hospital!)\n\nI think a good approach whenever you are treated this way by someone who knows your diagnosis is to explain that although you have been diagnosed with a mental illness, you are taking the appropriate medications or therapy (although that's not really their business anyway) and that you expect to be treated with the respect with which they treat everyone else.
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http://www.medlawplus.com/legalforms/instruct/sample-ltintent.pdf\n\nLook at the form on the above site and see if that may be what you need.  Good luck.
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in-patient requires you to enter/reside at a facility to receive treatment ... out-patient usually refers to weekly appointment/visits to a therapist
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Patients come for counseling and psychotherapy in order for them to get help, not to be embarassed or get humiliated just because you've given out information about them to others. They need to be assured that whatever info they'll give to you'll keep it between the two of you. Assuring them of confidentiality could help you gain your patient's trust. If your patient trusts you, he/she could then give accurate info about him/her or about his/her problem.
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Partial Hospitalization: Partial hospitalization for mental health care is a structured program of active treatment that is more intense than the care you get in your doctor’s or therapist’s office. For Medicare to cover a partial hospitalization program, a doctor must say that you would otherwise need inpatient treatment.\ndepending on which state you live in.
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Mmm, not sure what catagorisation you're using there.\n\nNormal treatments for mental illness;\n\nPharmacological therapy.\nElectro-convlsive therepy.\nCognitive behaviour therapy.\nPlay therapy (in paeds).\n\nYou might also want to note the role of supporting specialities such as psychiatrists, occupational therapists, social workers and so on.\n\nWiki has a list of 'therapies', some of which might actually be used;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychotherapies
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you can google it or go here http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolar.cfm , it is the National Institute for Mental Health. They give you the basics on the diease and their links section can be quite useful.