By the end of this session, you'll be able to do four things without breaking a sweat.
Explain the legal duty to accept and preliminarily examine a person under emergency detention — spoiler: "we're full" is not a legal defense.
Identify the two clocks you're now responsible for: the twelve-hour exam clock and the forty-eight-hour custody limit.
Describe what rights your patient keeps — because an EDO is not a permission slip to restrain or medicate someone into compliance.
And distinguish the state EDO process from federal EMTALA obligations, and understand how the two actually work together.
Four objectives, thirty minutes, zero excuses.