Twenty four hour / outpatient services

Survey

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The following survey was designed to better our hospital. Our goal is to improve patient outcomes and employee morale by returning to a recovery-based model of mental health. Please check back with this website in 3 - 7 days time for results. Action, if warranted, will only be taken on issues that receive an 80% approval—which would constitute a mandate—and will be determined based on your responses to the following:

Please fill out the following information and press the  Submit  button at the bottom of the form
   

Your three digit code       required - identifies you as MD, RN/LVN/LPT or MHW

Your name                        optional

Email Address                   optional

The questionnaire

Please enter 'Agree' or 'Disagree' in the space below each of items 1 - 4.

1. Outpatient overhaul. In-patient and PES interventions are worth little without op follow-up. A yes vote here means Administration agrees to implement all necessary changes to stabilize op service based on the op committee’s recommendations (the op committee is composed of one op doctor and two op nurses).

 

2. Staffing. Not a week goes by when we aren’t facing a staffing shortage. If it weren’t so crucial, it’d be funny. Flexible scheduling is the answer:  2 SV/PES nurses hired for two 16-hr shifts in exchange for being  on-call for two pm/noc staffing emergencies.

 

3. Safety. The administration must commit to hiring one Star Security officer armed with a taser or pepper spray for PES/SV pm/noc shifts. In addition, all tox positive patients and patients with a BA of 200 and above will be held at the ER for observation a minimum of 12-24 hours before transfer to PES. PES will immediately cease APS responsibilities.

  

4. Borderline Personality Disorder Pathway. Best practice standards dictate that borderline personality disordered patients are not well served by in-patient hospitalization. It’s time to insist that our administration does what’s right when it comes to borderlines: no in-patient admits, no legal holds, no emotional /behavioral dyscontrol. Borderline personality disordered patients admitted only if acutely suicidal and/or psychotic, and then hospitalization is short term.

 

Action. If the above policies are not instituted in 60 days and in the order of employee preference as determined by this survey, we will:

 Please enter 'Yes' or 'No' in the space below each of items A - F.

A. Contact the media

 

B.  Engage in a one-day symbolic sick out

 

C. Strike, with pickets, no more than 7 days

 

D. Contact the union

 

E. Enter into arbitration with a neutral mediator

 

F. Forum with all parties in attendance

 

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