Care setting overview
Emergency Department & Psychiatric Emergency Services
BH-ED- Care model
- Emergency and crisis care
- Typical pace
- Rapid, focused, and disposition-oriented
- Population
- Patients with acute behavioral change, safety concerns, intoxication or withdrawal, severe symptoms, or inability to maintain safety
- Location
- Emergency entrance, main campus
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Common presentations
- Suicidal thoughts, self-harm, aggression, or severe agitation
- Acute psychosis, mania, intoxication, or withdrawal
- Trauma reactions, panic, medication toxicity, and abrupt behavioral change
PMHNP priorities
- Stabilize immediate threats and identify medical emergencies
- Gather collateral when history is incomplete or reliability is limited
- Select the least restrictive safe disposition
Care team
Emergency clinicians, PMHNPs, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, security, toxicology, medical consultants, and crisis services