Power, Influence, and Decision-Making: Emergency Department Healthcare Workers’ Responses to Pediatric Patients With Suicidal Ideation
Abstract
Healthcare workers are in a unique position in that they can
both be oppressed and take part in the oppression. This
research focuses on the duality of healthcare workers treating
suicidal ideation in this space: how healthcare workers are
influenced by the systems that they work within, and how
they themselves influence the decision making while
considering their positionality. The results are parallel with
current discussion around limited resources in healthcare for
mental health emergencies and reflect the influences of
neoliberalism, biopolitics, and kyriarchy within medicine.