Résumés
Abstract
The Psychiatry Emergency Services (PES) virtual clinic is an innovative clinical program that was established to enhance access to psychiatric crisis follow-up care during COVID-19. The clinic provides psychiatric follow-up via scheduled phone calls or videoconference for patients that have been seen by the PES team. The social worker has an important role on the PES virtual clinic team: they initiate initial assessments, collaboratively develop follow-up plans, and facilitate community care. The clinic meets the provincial agenda to reduce Emergency Department (ED) visits, ED/PES wait times, ED/PES overcrowding, and inappropriate admissions, while addressing both psychiatric needs and social determinants of health in an acute care setting. Throughout our survey of relevant literature, we found little research to inform the implementation of virtual care in Canadian healthcare emergency services (Hensel et al., 2020; Serhal et al., 2017). More specifically, there is a void in research regarding a collaborative psychiatric and social work care model in the context of a global pandemic. Further robust studies are needed and encouraged that use emergency psychiatric settings as critical prevention sites of mental health crises.
Keywords:
- COVID-19 pandemic,
- virtual care,
- social work,
- mental health and addictions,
- follow up care
Résumé
La clinique virtuelle des Psychiatry Emergency Services (PES) est un programme clinique innovant qui a été mis en place pour améliorer l’accès aux suivis lors des crises psychiatriques pendant la pandémie de la COVID-19. La clinique assure un suivi psychiatrique par le biais d’appels téléphoniques ou de vidéoconférences pour les patients qui ont été vus par l’équipe des PES. La travailleuse sociale joue un rôle important au sein de l’équipe de la clinique virtuelle du PES : elle initie les évaluations initiales, élabore en collaboration des plans de suivi et facilite les soins de proximité. La clinique répond au plan provincial visant à réduire les visites aux services d’urgence, les temps d’attente aux services d’urgence/PES, l’engorgement des services d’urgence/PES et les admissions inappropriées, tout en répondant à la fois aux besoins psychiatriques et aux déterminants sociaux de la santé dans un contexte de soins aigus. Lors de la recension des écrits, nous avons trouvé peu de recherches permettant d’informer la mise en oeuvre des soins virtuels dans les services d’urgence canadiens (Hensel et coll., 2020; Serhal et coll., 2017). Plus précisément, il n’existe pas de recherche concernant un modèle de soins psychiatriques et sociaux collaboratifs dans un contexte de pandémie mondiale. D’autres études approfondies au sujet des milieux psychiatriques d’urgence utilisés comme sites de prévention des crises en santé mentale sont nécessaires.
Mots-clés :
- pandémie Covid-19,
- soins virtuels,
- travail social,
- santé mentale et toxicomanies,
- suivi
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