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Kids, Mental Health, and Emergency Care
Kids, Mental Health, and Emergency Care This is based on the journal article Pediatric Mental Health Care in Emergency Departments: A Review of the Literature by Kadian Magerl and Beth Swan, published in Pediatric Nursing in 2025. All statistics and references are found in the references list of their article. The United States is seeing…
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Hoosiers
So the governor of Indiana told medicaid programs they could not advertise on the radio or television… this will help keep medicaid costs down, sure. How will it keep costs down? By not letting Hoosiers know there is healthcare available to them if they qualify for these programs…. thereby not providing healthcare to them. Well…
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Coercion in Psychiatric Nursing
Research shows that coercive practices — subtle and overt — remain deeply embedded in everyday psychiatric care. A 2023 qualitative study by Aragonés-Calleja and Sánchez-Martínez asked nursing staff at an inpatient psychiatric unit about their knowledge and experience of coercion. More than a third of participants had never heard the word or couldn’t define it…
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Logan
I am a transmasc guy living in the rural midwest. I am a behavioral health triage nurse working in an emergency department. I am also a graduate student, studying to be a PMHNP.