Month: March 2020

Social distancing on a psychiatric inpatient unit is not easy but it must be done. Here are some tips. It’s helpful to break these strategies out into four categories: visitors, patient/patient, staff/staff, and staff/patient. Visitor distancing First of all, restrict all “routine” visits, meaning friend and family visits. The only visitors allowed should be those …

As I mentioned in my last post on social distancing strategies, these techniques are very difficult on our typically crowded and small inpatient units. The ultimate social distancing technique is to avoid setting foot in the unit, which is where telehealth comes in.  Remote treatment has rapidly become the standard for psychiatric outpatient care during …