r/emergencymedicine 3d ago

Advice Verbal approach to involuntary psych patients

/r/nursing/comments/1n0op3b/verbal_approach_to_involuntary_psych_patients/
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u/Old_Glove9292 3d ago

Gentle reminder that the World Health Organization considers both forced restraints and involuntary hospitalization to be human rights abuses, and is advocating for those interventions to be banned globally:

https://www.who.int/news/item/10-06-2021-new-who-guidance-seeks-to-put-an-end-to-human-rights-violations-in-mental-health-care

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u/BikerMurse 3d ago

Guess I should let my patients go kill themselves and/or others so I don't violate their rights, then.

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u/Rita27 medical assistant 3d ago edited 3d ago

Some people honestly think it’s better for a person with schizophrenia to be covered in their own feces and hurting themselves or others than to be on involuntary treatment. It’s easy for them to say that because they know they’ll never actually be in a situation where they have to pick between someone’s safety and their liberty.

Some people even suggest a jail for these types of patients. which is genuinely baffling

Apparently it's much more humane to have cops restraint and imprison someone who is psychotic than mental health staff. So unserious