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/backroundagain 22h ago

You either say something like this, or have experience treating these patients. Not both.

No one has an ounce of interest hearing an opinion prefaced on zero experience.