Re: Ask me about working in a psychiatric hospital
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They were all Baker Acted so we could legally hold them for 72 hours without a court review. In practice we basically forced all the patients to sign in voluntarily by telling them that if we had to send it to court then it would indicate that they were not cooperating with treatment and that they would end up staying much longer. Of course once they are in voluntarily they can't just back out of it on a whim.
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Is that true or did you lie to them?
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It was true that if they did not sign in voluntarily and the court ordered them to stay that they would probably be held longer because they were not cooperating. However, if they did not sign in voluntarily then a court would often release them, so if you looked at the expected-value in terms of hosptial days of signing-in or not, refusing to sign in was probably much more +EV (uhh, where more +EV equals less hospital days).
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