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To: President Donald Trump, The Minnesota State House, The Minnesota State Senate, Governor Tim Walz, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Reform Psych Wards and Psychiatric Hospitals in America
Reforming Psych Wards and Psychiatric Hospitals in America, to have it be free of discrimination, be equal with other wards, and have patients be treated with respect.
Why is this important?
Hospitals are supposed to be places of compassion, kindness, and care. In all wards that deal with physical illnesses, patients will receive that kind of care, except in the psych ward. People in psych wards across the country are being stigmatized and discriminated against by staff and sometimes abused.
-When people are first admitted they are forced to put on ugly looking scrubs, that are similar to prison wear and they have their clothes and their cell phones and laptops taken from them. While they claim the scrubs are to protect people from hurting themselves and the cell phones and laptops are taken away from them for privacy. They do not do this in other wards for people with physical illnesses, making it discrimination.
-Upon admittance, the nurses, staff, and doctors do not talk to the patient or get any medical history from them. Instead, they get it from the patient's caregivers and not to the patient, treating them like children.
-The staff treat and talks to the patients like children.
-When someone is admitted to the psych ward, they do not talk to the patient who is suicidal or in pain. They leave them alone and tell them to cope with it.
-There is a shortage of beds in psych wards. Causing patients to have to stay in the ER for months at a time.
-They do not provide peer specialists.
-If a patient does not have a place to stay after the hospital, the doctor will discharge them into a homelessness situation.
-The doctors have a poor bedside manner.
-Patients who are lucid and coherent and not a threat to themselves or others are forced to be locked in the psych ward.
-The staff makes inappropriate assumptions about patients based on the stigma of mental illness.
-Patients sometimes face abuse at the hands of the staff.
Request of the Government
We ask that the federal and state governments do as follows;
-Upon admittance, to the ER, for a psychiatric ailment, the nurses and doctors will talk to the patient and the caregivers
-Forcing a patient to wear those ugly looking scrubs will be prohibited
-Patients who are lucid and coherent will be allowed to keep their cell phones and laptops while in the hospital provided they sign a contract not to take pictures. Same goes for visitors.
-A working group will be put together to teach the doctors and nurses bedside manner, and how not to stigmatize and profile someone with a mental illness. It will also teach people who work in hospitals how to talk and give hope to someone who is suicidal. It will also teach people in the Emergency rooms this too.
-Requires peer specialists to work in psych wards.
-Patients will not be discharged into homeless situations.
-Patients will have the choice between individual and/or group therapy.
-Patients who are not a danger to themselves or others will not have to be locked in the psych ward.
-People who are patients in the psych ward will be treated with the same respect and courtesy as people with physical illnesses.
-Require the government to give more money for beds in psych wards.
-Put together a working group to help find better group treatments.
-When people are first admitted they are forced to put on ugly looking scrubs, that are similar to prison wear and they have their clothes and their cell phones and laptops taken from them. While they claim the scrubs are to protect people from hurting themselves and the cell phones and laptops are taken away from them for privacy. They do not do this in other wards for people with physical illnesses, making it discrimination.
-Upon admittance, the nurses, staff, and doctors do not talk to the patient or get any medical history from them. Instead, they get it from the patient's caregivers and not to the patient, treating them like children.
-The staff treat and talks to the patients like children.
-When someone is admitted to the psych ward, they do not talk to the patient who is suicidal or in pain. They leave them alone and tell them to cope with it.
-There is a shortage of beds in psych wards. Causing patients to have to stay in the ER for months at a time.
-They do not provide peer specialists.
-If a patient does not have a place to stay after the hospital, the doctor will discharge them into a homelessness situation.
-The doctors have a poor bedside manner.
-Patients who are lucid and coherent and not a threat to themselves or others are forced to be locked in the psych ward.
-The staff makes inappropriate assumptions about patients based on the stigma of mental illness.
-Patients sometimes face abuse at the hands of the staff.
Request of the Government
We ask that the federal and state governments do as follows;
-Upon admittance, to the ER, for a psychiatric ailment, the nurses and doctors will talk to the patient and the caregivers
-Forcing a patient to wear those ugly looking scrubs will be prohibited
-Patients who are lucid and coherent will be allowed to keep their cell phones and laptops while in the hospital provided they sign a contract not to take pictures. Same goes for visitors.
-A working group will be put together to teach the doctors and nurses bedside manner, and how not to stigmatize and profile someone with a mental illness. It will also teach people who work in hospitals how to talk and give hope to someone who is suicidal. It will also teach people in the Emergency rooms this too.
-Requires peer specialists to work in psych wards.
-Patients will not be discharged into homeless situations.
-Patients will have the choice between individual and/or group therapy.
-Patients who are not a danger to themselves or others will not have to be locked in the psych ward.
-People who are patients in the psych ward will be treated with the same respect and courtesy as people with physical illnesses.
-Require the government to give more money for beds in psych wards.
-Put together a working group to help find better group treatments.