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1. Explain rationale for providing emergency psychiatric services for walk-in patients to receive
psychiatric assessment and referral for either admission to hospital or referral to outpatient psychiatric
services; give an example of what type of patient would be admitted (write minimum one paragraph).
2. Explain rationale for maintaining a Suicide Prevention Hotline located at the hospital as a 24-hour
phone service. See Boyd & Luebbert, Chapter 22. (write minimum one paragraph)
Heading: Psychiatric Treatments for Mental Illness
1. Discuss two types of treatment for a specific mental illness (you decide which mental illness) that will
be provided by psychiatric nurses on the in-patient units. See Boyd & Luebbert, Chapters 24, 25, 26, 27,
31, 32, 37, 38, 39, 40, and 41. (write minimum one paragraph)
2. Discuss two types of treatment for mental illness that other staff will provide. For example,
Occupational Therapist, Recreational Therapist, Art Therapist, and/or Music Therapist. What will they
provide for in-patient at the psychiatric hospital? (write minimum one paragraph)
See Ramano, J.M., de Beer, M., and Roos, L. (2021). The perceptions of adult psychiatric inpatients with
major depressive disorder towards occupational therapy activity-based groups. South African Journal of
Psychiatry, 28. The perceptions of adult psychiatric inpatients with major depressive disorder towards
occupational therapy activity-based groups PMC (nih.gov)