DarkStarr
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My employer posted a new policy regarding our never ending battle regarding psych patients:
201 - Call Mental Health Services and request a taxi for the patient.
If the magic words are spoken (homocide/suicide), then we are to 302 them, after the police pat them down. If violent and therefore, restrained, police are to ride in with us (and not follow, but sit in back with us).
I feel like it would be a little awkward with the 201 taxi situation, but, we generally don't end up getting paid for 201 transports.
For the 302 situation, it seems like they are trying to make it inconvenient for everyone in order to play a strong hand against our medical director. In the past, we refused to do pysch's for the reasons above and because sometimes PD would call us for a transport, which was not medically necessary, and they could just as easily take the patient themselves.
Thoughts?
201 - Call Mental Health Services and request a taxi for the patient.
If the magic words are spoken (homocide/suicide), then we are to 302 them, after the police pat them down. If violent and therefore, restrained, police are to ride in with us (and not follow, but sit in back with us).
I feel like it would be a little awkward with the 201 taxi situation, but, we generally don't end up getting paid for 201 transports.
For the 302 situation, it seems like they are trying to make it inconvenient for everyone in order to play a strong hand against our medical director. In the past, we refused to do pysch's for the reasons above and because sometimes PD would call us for a transport, which was not medically necessary, and they could just as easily take the patient themselves.
Thoughts?