The Inpatient Behavioral Health Policy and Procedure Manual covers every topic your inpatient behavioral health unit will need, from Assessment to Utilization Management in one easy-to-use volume.  This comprehensive manual includes over 320 comprehensive policies, procedures and forms to meet The Joint Commission's standards and CMS regulations.  All documents can be customized in Word.  MCN cross-references the policies to the current TJC standards and CMS regulations in the table of contents, so you don't have to!

The Inpatient Behavioral Health Policy and Procedure Manual addresses all of the frequently cited Joint Commission requirements, including patient rights, consents, assessment, performance improvement, patient safety plan, competencies and much more!

Topics covered in the Inpatient Behavioral Health Policy and Procedure Manual include:

• Plan for the Provision of Nursing Care in Psychiatric Specialty Areas
• Criteria for Admission to the Behavioral Health Unit
• Assessment for Self-Harm/Suicidal Ideation
• Suicide Precautions
• Behavioral Health Admission Assessment - Nursing
• Substance Abuse
• Assessment - Fall
• Assessment - Psychosocial
• Social Service Assessment
• Multidisciplinary Plan of Care
• Treatment Interventions
• Time-Out
• Assaultive/Combative Patients - Management of
• Electroconvulsive Therapy
• Elopement
• Psychological Services
• Restraint or Seclusion Use
• Discharge Planning
• Patient Aftercare Plan Form
• Transfer of Patients
• Behavioral Health Unit Preceptor Checklists
• Job Descriptions and Competencies
• Infection Prevention and Control Policies
• Information Management Plan
• Release of Medical Information
• Staffing - Nursing
• Staff Rights and Ethical Dilemmas in Patient Care
• Utilization Management Plan
• Patient Safety Plan
• Sentinel Event
• Risk Management Plan
• Psychotropic Medications
• Medication Errors
• Performance Improvement Plan and Performance Measures/Outcomes
• Patient Satisfaction Survey
• Patient Rights and Responsibilities
• Denial of Patient's Rights
• 72-Hour Involuntary Detention for Evaluation and Treatment
• Fourteen (14) Day Holds
• Mental Health Regulations - Involuntary Hold Notice Form
• Conservatorship
• Certification Review Hearings
• Medication Capacity Hearings
• Patient Complaint and Grievance Process

... and much more!