camera question and inquiry

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Dear Community, I am an art therapist working on a 33 bed accute care adult inpatient psychiatric unit, and I have two questions for you. 1. I am trying to use some of our rehabilitation therapy budget to purchase a digital camera and printer for photo therapy purposes. My hospital has some understandable reservations about having a camera on the unit. However, we have consent forms and have conceeded that any pictures patients take of other patients should not be taken off the unit. Does anyone have experience with this kind of issue or know anything about the law regarding privacy, photography, photo therapy, HIPPA, and hospital administration? Any insights would be appreciated. 2. I am one of two fulltime art therapists working on a 33 bed accute care adult inpatient psychiatric unit. We also have a

per diem art therapist coming in for 4 hours a week. My co-worker and myself may soon have an opportunity to present our facility with a proposal for the expansion of our program, including things like group and individual space, another therapist, doing work in the ER...So to start helping us build the best program possible: Can anyone who is working or has worked in a similar environment send me some info on the therapy set up on your units? Meaning, do you have well defined spaces to do group and individual therapy (we use a dining room)? What is your patient to therapist ratio? If you are involved in discharge and admission charting/planning, about how many of these happen each week? Do you ever do consultations around the hospital, in other departments besides Psychiatry or maybe in the ER? Again, any help would be much appreciated. Keenan, MPS, limited CAT permit

holder. seaglekeenan@...

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