5 Things About Working in a Psychiatric Emergency Department

Assistant professor Emma Mangano is faculty, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP), and staff at Johns Hopkins Psychiatric Emergency Department. Here she discusses 5 unique things about the area.
Emma Mangano's bio: nursing.jhu.edu/mangano
What’s It Like to Work In a Psychiatric Emergency Department? bit.ly/3PtORFK
0:28: What is the psychiatric emergency services area?
0:55: What brings people into the psychiatric emergency services area?
2:25: Who works in the psychiatric emergency services area?
3:25: Why do we need more psychiatric nurses?
5:08: One unique thing about working in the psychiatric ED is we may be the first person someone in crisis talks to, and that is special.