The medical-psychiatric consultation liaison nurse. Meeting psychosocial needs of medical patients in the acute care setting.

This article focuses on the development of the role of the MPCLN in the acute care setting. The need for such a role clearly exists to meet the complex needs of medical inpatient populations. Patients with primary psychiatric disorders or psychiatric disorders concomitant or secondary to physical disease, as well as the growing elderly population will all require psychiatric interventions.

Improving quality of patient care services for outpatient observation patients.

This article focuses on the history of observation status, the principles of observation bed usage, and the issues related to observation patients' processing at RPSLMC. The role of the interdisciplinary team in designing a patient-centered and revenue-capturing quality operation is described. Several quality indicators are currently monitoring the effectiveness and efficiency of the observation system.