Inpatient Psychiatry
Inpatient Psychiatry is a topic covered in the Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide.
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DEFINITION
- Defined as 24-hour services that are delivered in a licensed hospital setting
- May be part of a general hospital or an independent psychiatric hospital
- May be private, academic, or state-operated
- Provides clinical intervention for mental health and/or substance use disorders
- Interventions are delivered in a physically secure and safe setting and include:
- A full range of intensive evaluation (diagnostic) services
- Educational and therapeutic services
- The ability to provide acute psychiatric interventions
- Medication titration
- Procedures (e.g., electroconvulsive therapy)
- Behavior monitoring
- Intensive brief psychotherapy
- Social work support
- Admission into this level of care (the highest level of psychiatric care) is to treat serious or dangerous conditions that require rapid stabilization of symptoms, 24-hour nursing supervision, and immediate availability of medical staff.
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DEFINITION
- Defined as 24-hour services that are delivered in a licensed hospital setting
- May be part of a general hospital or an independent psychiatric hospital
- May be private, academic, or state-operated
- Provides clinical intervention for mental health and/or substance use disorders
- Interventions are delivered in a physically secure and safe setting and include:
- A full range of intensive evaluation (diagnostic) services
- Educational and therapeutic services
- The ability to provide acute psychiatric interventions
- Medication titration
- Procedures (e.g., electroconvulsive therapy)
- Behavior monitoring
- Intensive brief psychotherapy
- Social work support
- Admission into this level of care (the highest level of psychiatric care) is to treat serious or dangerous conditions that require rapid stabilization of symptoms, 24-hour nursing supervision, and immediate availability of medical staff.
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Last updated: January 8, 2022
Citation
Ruble, Anne E, and Vinay Parekh. "Inpatient Psychiatry." Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide, 2022. Johns Hopkins Guides, www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787012/all/Inpatient_Psychiatry.
Ruble AE, Parekh V. Inpatient Psychiatry. Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide. 2022. https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787012/all/Inpatient_Psychiatry. Accessed March 29, 2023.
Ruble, A. E., & Parekh, V. (2022). Inpatient Psychiatry. In Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787012/all/Inpatient_Psychiatry
Ruble AE, Parekh V. Inpatient Psychiatry [Internet]. In: Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide. ; 2022. [cited 2023 March 29]. Available from: https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787012/all/Inpatient_Psychiatry.
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