NURS 6051 THE APPLICATION OF DATA TO PROBLEM-SOLVING

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NURS 6051 THE APPLICATION OF DATA TO PROBLEM-SOLVING

Thank you for your informative post. Mental and psychiatric health is a recent and rising interest of mine, especially since the start of the pandemic. Pinals and Fuller state, “That access to psychiatric beds is a topic of national urgency and understatement” (2020). Mental health in the United States is an ongoing concern and the shortage of healthcare providers impacts all areas and specialties of care despite universal acknowledgment that mental health is imperative to overall well-being and the primary initiative regarding mental health should be to provide and implement necessary and appropriate resources for those in need (Allison et al., 2017). The idea of a standardized bed availability system could expedite much needed care for patients while alleviating some of the burden on healthcare providers to establish criteria, guidelines, and protocols for placement of psychiatric patients. I am interested in knowing how mental health crises and concerns would be evaluated and prioritized if a bed availability system were implemented. Additionally, would there be any concern regarding clinical integrity for clinicians who may feel desperate to place patients?

References

Allison, S., Bastiampillai, T., & Castle, D. (2017). Victoria’s low availability of public psychiatric beds and the impact on patients, carers and staff. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 51, 191-192. https://doi.org/10.1177/0004867417721019  

Pinals, D. & Fuller, D. (2020). The vital role of a full continuum of psychiatric care beyond beds. Psychiatric Services, 71(7), 713-721. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900516

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