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Hospital socks, also known as psych ward socks or grippy socks, are socks given to patients at hospitals, psychiatric facilities, and nursing homes. The socks have non-skid features to prevent patients from slipping and falling. [ 1 ]
Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
Juvenile wards are sections of psychiatric hospitals or psychiatric wards set aside for children with mental illness. However, there are a number of institutions specializing only in the treatment of juveniles, particularly when dealing with drug abuse, self-harm, eating disorders, anxiety, depression or other mental illnesses.
Emergency psychiatry is the clinical application of psychiatry in emergency settings. [1] [2] Conditions requiring psychiatric interventions may include attempted suicide, substance abuse, depression, psychosis, violence or other rapid changes in behavior.
A high-dependency unit (HDU) is an inpatient psychiatric ward, typically with only a small number of beds, attached to an acute admissions ward. [1] It is intended to provide treatment for patients who cannot be managed safely on an acute (open) ward, but do not meet the threshold for admission to PICU.
Southworth, who founded her mental health support app company Astra Labs in 2016, has made past suicide attempts and spent time a psychiatric hospital at the age of 18. She tells Yahoo Life, "The ...
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They woke me up in the middle of the night to transfer me to Research Psychiatric. It was quiet in the ward: Everyone was asleep. Back then, in the winter of 2010, I had extraordinarily vivid dreams, and I loved to dream, because I often dreamt of my children and other good things that were no longer part of my waking everyday life.