Mental Health Facility Benefits

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Mental Health Facility Benefits When it comes to criminology, mental illnesses can be a hot topic in deciding if the person charged of crime should be convicted into a jail or the criminal wing of a mental facility. The facilities can prove to b e a great asset to general population, holding the morals of popular belief while also keeping the convicted safe from theirselves and others. Many of these facilities do not differ drastically from nursing homes, the arrangements of rooms, dining halls, and lobbies are similar. Residents still retain their rights as a human being. Though they are criminally charged, there are laws forbidding restraints as these are counted as false imprisonment, they are also allowed the right to confidentiality. The major difference of mental hospitals from long term care facilities is the nursing care given. Registered nurses and licensed vocational nurses remain in the nurses station, recording data, and only coming out of the glass-walled section to administer medicines. The majority of hands on care in mental facilities are given by certified nursing assistants who have gone through additional safety and crisis training, as well as taking some criminology classes in college. Their job is to protect the registered nurses and licensed vocational nurses. In a general long term care facility, the nurses station doors would not be shut, both registered and licensed vocational nurses would be out on the floor along with the certified nursing assistants, because it is a more safe environment. Criminology floors of these mental institutions are beneficial to the society because they lower the risk of harm from the residents either harming themselves or others, cater better to their cognitive needs than a jail, as well as catering better to their physical needs. Since the criminology floors of mental hospitals are
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