Care setting overview
Inpatient Psychiatry
BH-IPAcute stabilization, daily reassessment, team-based treatment, legal and ethical decision-making, medication initiation or adjustment, therapeutic milieu, and discharge readiness.
- Care model
- Acute psychiatric hospitalization
- Typical pace
- Daily assessment within a structured therapeutic milieu
- Population
- Patients who require 24-hour psychiatric care for stabilization, diagnostic clarification, or intensive treatment
Common presentations
- Severe mood episodes, psychosis, and catatonic or disorganized states
- Persistent suicide risk, severe self-neglect, or impaired judgment
- Complex withdrawal, eating-disorder risk, or psychiatric-medical instability after medical clearance
PMHNP priorities
- Define observable stabilization and discharge targets
- Reassess risk, capacity, response, and adverse effects daily
- Begin transition planning at admission
Care team
PMHNPs, psychiatrists, nurses, therapists, pharmacists, social workers, occupational therapists, peer specialists, and medical consultants