This Mental Health Care and Treatment Act form holds both certificates needed to admit a person as an involuntary patient in Newfoundland and Labrador. A physician or nurse practitioner completes the first certificate after a psychiatric assessment, and a psychiatrist completes the second. With both signed, the person is promptly admitted to a psychiatric unit and may be detained for up to 30 days.
A physician or nurse practitioner completes the First Certificate page; a psychiatrist completes the Second Certificate, or another physician if a psychiatrist is not readily available. Each signer records the assessment address, time and date and the person's MCP number.
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Certificate of Involuntary Admission (MHCTA-01)
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Yes, for the first certificate. Subsection 17(2) of the Act allows a physician, nurse practitioner or other person authorized by the regulations to complete the first certificate. The second must be completed by a psychiatrist, or by a different physician when a psychiatrist is not readily available.
Once both certificates are complete, section 28 allows detention in a psychiatric unit for up to 30 days from the date the first certificate was completed and signed. Before that period ends, the attending physician reassesses the patient and either completes MHCTA-02, the Certificate of Renewal, or ends involuntary status.
The form's footnote quotes section 2 of the Act: a disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation or memory that impairs judgment or behaviour, the capacity to recognize reality, or the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life, and for which psychiatric treatment is advisable.