Discharge Planning Mental Health Worksheet

If you’re like me, you probably need help with discharging your paper work and paperwork through the system. You may have already attempted to do this on a few occasions but you found the process to be extremely cumbersome. You may even find yourself looking for ways around the system that you don’t know about. The good news is that you don’t have to worry about any of this anymore. I am going to show you how to use a CMS discharge planning sheet to make things easier for you!

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I had to create a discharge planning mental health worksheet for an inpatient receiving treatment from a licensed clinical psychologist. This psychologist was a bit apprehensive about having his patients complete this type of document. He believed that it might assist him in becoming more organized and thought that it may also serve as a barrier to helping his patient is emotionally stable during the treatment process. He gave me a copy of his standard handbook for inpatients with psychiatric disorders and asked me to customize the sheet for his patient. I thought this would be a good way to approach the problem since he was the one who’d created the standard handbook.

The first thing I did was to go online to various medical websites and search terms such as “Discharge Summary Form,” “NICSTD Intake Form,” “clinical documentation for discharge planning”, and so on. I was surprised to discover that there was a multitude of these websites. They all had very similar generic applications. One of them was the CMS Discharge Planning Mental Health Worksheet which was the same content that I’d customized for the psychologist in charge of my patient’s care. The only difference was that this particular discharge summary form had been developed by a professional organization that specializes in substance abuse disorders.

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The second thing I did was to go to the website of the American Psychological Association and download a version of the 30-discharge planning mental health worksheet that is used in the clinical documentation of patients with psychiatric disorders. This gave me a reference for the discharge plan. Once I had downloaded and installed the program, I printed out the document on paper.

I then took those sheets and I laid them in the same order as the original. Next I labeled them with my particular patient’s name. I also labeled each one “omenally,” “uniquely,” “and,” “or.” I placed these in appropriate places on my chart. The final step in this process was to complete the final step in the preparation of the behavioral health discharge planning toolkit: handwriting analysis.

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At the time I was preparing my discharge planning manual for a community mental health agency, I had several clients who were calling due to a crisis and needed to get an appointment as soon as possible. These clients had very serious problems, but when I went through the paperwork with them, it was very apparent that some of their problems were not really mental health related at all. I would discover in the course of our communication that they were suffering from some sort of addiction issue. In other words, they were in dire need of immediate intervention now, before it was too late.

I began to work on the checklist for their discharge planning. In doing so, I discovered what kind of problems some of my clients were suffering from: anxiety, substance abuse, depression, and suicidal thoughts. In addition to those, they also had conflicts within their relationships, financial problems, and legal issues. To remedy the situation, I had to create a complete discharge planning overview on every single one of these clients. The process took me a total of seven days, and during that period, I did the following:

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It took me less than seven days to prepare the documentation and the workbook. I made sure that every single client was included on the checklist, and I created an entire discharge planning overview for each client. In fact, I believe that my manual was not so much a “handbook” but a complete, comprehensive guide for any licensed mental health professional to use in a mental health crisis. If you are like me, I am very happy that you have read my article on Mental Health Crisis Planning!