NURS 3554 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Community Mental Health Act, Assertive Community Treatment, Chlorpromazine
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Easier transition rather than 7 day discharge. Gradually go down from 5 days a week to 3 etc. Individual therapy and monitor medication can go whenever in the day. 1960s: community mental health centers act deinstitutionalization. 1980s: carter"s commission on mental health recommended more community-based. George w. bush"s new freedom commission on mental health. Goal of treatment: quickly stabilize them so they can send home. Stop something and treating before it becomes a major problem. Individuals with chronic illnesses might be sick on off hours. Reduce the number or prevalence you see a disease. Sx is there and treatment of disease. Outpatient psychiatric mental health care evaluation and can make inferalls and med changes. Provides an individual they can call that can do an assessment and. Could do med visit and check on them. Affective in keeping them out of the hospital and finding right person to prevent hospitalization. Keep from having to go to hospital er again and again.
