Question

What kind of intervention could we possibly deliver in the emergency units ?

Problem description

At this moment the hospital emergencies do not appeal sufficiently to the mobile team

Impact - effect

Without a direct link with the emergency services, working in a crisis situation becomes difficult.  Once the physical danger is excluded, the person returns home or could be seen by a psychiatrist from the hospital in order to make an evaluation of the situation.   When the psychiatrist’s assessment is not indicating the need for hospitalisation, the person leaves while the notion of crisis is still present

To do

Work on improving relationships with our emergency services.

When a patient with a mental health problem is admitted to an emergency service and the situation requires an evaluation by a psychiatrist, we could engage in this assessment in order to obtain a first approach of the situation and / or to make a crisis intervention for the person possible outside the hospital setting.

Why don’t we just use a useful tool, e.g. a common document, together with the hospital emergencies, summarising the situation.  This document may be exchanged by email to our staff do that we can organise ourselves to participate in a first meeting and / or, having his coordinates,  be able to contact the person and to know whether he is willing to accept an interventions outside the hospital

Theme

Hospitalisation

Topic

useful in facilitating coordination between mobile teams and hospital

Reference -  contact

Nicolas Berghe, Kévin Merchez

Mobile team

2A

Project

Hainaut Occidental

Intership abroad - place

Lille (SIIC)

Date

January 2014