patient care

By the Book: Guiding Teens Through Inpatient Psychiatric Stays
By the Book: Guiding Teens Through Inpatient Psychiatric Stays 1024 555 Katie Brind'Amour, PhD, MS, CHES

A new patient guidebook provides evidence-based resources to engage adolescents in their recovery throughout and after their hospital stay. Inpatient admissions for child and adolescent psychiatry patients typically occur due to a psychiatric crisis. At Nationwide Children’s Hospital, children stay an average of eight days before transitioning to outpatient care. While in the hospital, they…

Approaching Uncertainty in Medicine With a Growth Mindset
Approaching Uncertainty in Medicine With a Growth Mindset 1024 531 Abbie Miller

In baseball, a really good batting average is .333 — which means the batter hits the ball and gets to first base a third of the time. That also means they miss —they fail — two-thirds of the time. Medical providers are expected to get things right 100% of the time,” says Michael Patrick, MD,…