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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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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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The Sacred Moments in Emergency Nursing
There are moments as a nurse that stand out. I am a behavioral health nurse, currently working triage in an emergency department. One day, when I came on shift, I received report on a patient who arrived during the night. They had used a substance and were found unclothed walking along the road. When they…
