Translational Research for Practice and Populations Western Governors University

Translational Research for Practice and Populations Nursing Practice Identification, Description, and Change The organization is a non-profit acute care hospital with an inpatient psychiatric unit. The patient population in the local area is diverse. Patients come for various ethnic, racial, religious, educational, and, socio-economic backgrounds. The nursing process that needs change is decreasing onboarding time for psychiatric patients in the Emergency Room (ER) to transfer to the Behavioral Health Unit (BHU). There is a constant struggle between the two departments on wait time for transferring the patient to the BHU. The BHU is the only psychiatric unit for the ERs of the...