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/Negative_Way8350 BSN 3d ago

Gentle reminder that patients assault nurses at extremely high rates and do you have any suggestions for our own right to be safe on the job per OSHA?