What is it about?
This paper explores how systems and processes used on a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) can be adapted to tackle challenges imposed by COVID.
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Why is it important?
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rapid change in the way all healthcare is provided. Pre-existing clinical models of care delivery have had to merge with a new way of working; driven by infection control and minimising the transmission of the virus. The acute psychiatric setting also finds itself on the frontline, and has had to adapt.
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This page is a summary of: The psychiatric intensive care unit clinical model and COVID-19, Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care, January 2020, NAPICU (National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care Units),
DOI: 10.20299/jpi.2020.022.
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