Spaces:
Sleeping
Sleeping
The intake workflow starts with a notice by telephone at the secretarial office of the mental health care institute. | |
This notice is done by the family doctor of somebody who is in need of mental treatment. | |
The secretarial worker inquires after the name and residence of the patient. | |
On the basis of this information , the doctor is put through to the nursing officer responsible for the part of the region that the patient lives in. | |
The nursing officer makes a full inquiry into the mental , health , and social state of the patient in question. | |
This information is recorded on a registration form. | |
At the end of the conversation , this form is handed in at the secretarial office of the institute. | |
Here , the information on the form is stored in the information system and subsequently printed. | |
For new patients , a patient file is created. | |
The registration form as well as the print from the information system are stored in the patient file. | |
Patient files are kept at the secretarial office and may not leave the building. | |
At the secretarial office , two registration cards are produced for respectively the future first and second intaker of the patient. | |
The registration card contains a set of basic patient data. | |
The new patient is added on the list of new notices. | |
Halfway the week , at Wednesday , a staff meeting of the entire medical team takes place. | |
The medical team consists of social-medical workers , physicians , and a psychiatrist. | |
At this meeting , the team-leader assigns all new patients on the list of new notices to members of the team. | |
Each patient will be assigned to a social-medical worker , who will act as the first intaker of the patient. | |
One of the physicians will act as the second intaker. | |
In assigning intakers , the teamleader takes into account their expertise , the region they are responsible for , earlier contacts they might have had with the patient , and their case load. | |
The assignments are recorded on an assignment list which is handed to the secretarial office. | |
For each new assignment , it is also determined whether the medical file of the patient is required. | |
This information is added to the assignment list. | |
The secretarial office stores the assignment of each patient of the assignment list in the information system. | |
It passes the produced registration cards to the first and second intaker of each newly assigned patient. | |
An intaker keeps this registration with him at times when visiting the patient and in his close proximity when he is at the office. | |
For each patient for which the medical file is required , the secretarial office prepares and sends a letter to the family doctor of the patient , requesting for a copy of the medical file. | |
As soon as this copy is received , the secretarial office will inform the second intaker and add the copy to the patient file. | |
The first intaker plans a meeting with the patient as soon as this is possible. | |
During the first meeting , the patient is examined using a standard checklist which is filled out. | |
Additional observations are registered in a personal notebook. | |
After a visit , the first intaker puts a copy of these notes in the file of a patient. | |
The standard checklist is also added to the patient's file. | |
The second intaker plans the first meeting only after the medical information of the physician if required has been received. | |
Physicians use dictaphones to record their observations made during meetings with patients. | |
The secretarial office types out these tapes , after which the information is added to the patient file. | |
As soon as the meetings of the first and second intaker with the patient have taken place , the secretarial office puts the patient on the list of patients that reach this status. | |
For the staff meeting on Wednesday , they provide the team-leader with a list of these patients. | |
For each of these patients , the first and second intaker together with the team-leader and the attending psychiatrist formulate a treatment plan. | |
This treatment plan formally ends the intake procedure . |