Hospital emergency presentation

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Case study 1

Sara You are an on-call social worker at a large metropolitan hospital. Sara presented to the hospital emergency department on Friday afternoon. On presentation, she disclosed to an emergency triage nurse that she was feeling overwhelmed and 'so very sad'. She shared that she had been having thoughts, sometimes, of taking her own life. Sara said that she had tried calling several emergency telephone mental health crisis services however they were all busy with other calls at the times she was able to call. The emergency triage nurse contacted social workers to undertake a mental health assessment before deciding on the next steps in Sara's treatment. During the referral, the emergency triage nurse informed the social worker that the psychiatric emergency care service is currently at capacity so regardless of the outcome of the assessment this would not be an option for Sara's care. During the assessment, you learn the following:

Sara is 25 years old and is from Syria. She came to Australia with her family (mother, father, and siblings) as a refugee in 2014.

Sara has been married for five years and has two of her children - aged 5 and 4.

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