Thread: Hospitalization
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Old Jan 11, 2013, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by wotchermuggle View Post
What does this mean exactly?
Usually patients lie in beds with the IV unit positioned next to the bed. Of course, the beds are in the rooms. That creates a suicide risk. Therefore, on psych units, a patient needs to sit in a chair, for hours, right next to the nursing station, in full view of the nurses, to remove the suicide risk. And the IV unit is next to the chair. It is a very tiring experience.