Question

Answer the following questions in distinguishing between acute versus chronic psychiatric care facility:

How are clients admitted --direct admit through an ED, or through law enforcement?

How does the client's legal status vary in the facilities, eg voluntary, voluntary by guardian, involuntary -96 hr, 21 day, 90 day, and 1 year, (as well as the judicial process

What kind of psychiatric diagnoses might you anticipate in one facility vs another?

How might a nursing care map differ with a client in one agency vs another?

What is an expected length of stay? What kind of safety measures would you expect to see in both facilities?

What kind of treatment and aftercare is available?

Who are the team members that you would expect to provide services to a client?  

Answer 1

ANS- ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC CARE FACILITY- people who need safety monitoring, who need assessment, who need therapies, management in their medications. It is only be done when a patient needs 24 hours care or round the clock care.

CHRONIC PSYCHIATRIC CARE FACILITY- Rehabilitation is there for these patients, life is a constant struggle for them, functional losses are there. A patient is in need of care and sometimes becomes a burden for his or her family. Psychosocial, physiological and medical support is given to these patients.