I visited my mom in the hospital after Covid infection. She clearly is not well mentally. She kicked a nurse spews profanity. Sometimes she does not recognize me. I believe she now has the onset of dementia. I have asked the Dr. caring for her now to have her evaluated and he has refused. She only has coverage for 21 days of hospital care and we are at day 15. I need advice on how to get a second opinion. He also will not sign for skilled nursing even though she is not eating, able to stand and like I said severely confused.
Your profile mentions Mother's current history of mental illness. She may be so confused she is not taking her regular medication, or maybe it is not so effective when ill, or when mixed with other meds for Covid. Very hard.
I suspect it will be a watch & wait situation.
What was she admitted to hospital for, and what treatment has she been receiving? If this sounds like a silly question, to which the answer would be "for Covid, durr!", please bear in mind that most people don't need to be in hospital and don't require ventilation, so for her to be kept in for 15 days so far there must be some clinical need for it, and there's not much point in a psych evaluation until she's medically stable.
The issue you might like to get ahead of, then, is how the discharge plan is beginning to shape up. Have they got as far as suggesting where she will go next, and roughly when, and with what continuing care?
You will be able to request an evaluation when she has become Covid symptom free.
A psych evaluation is not going to do her much good right now. Any psych meds are going to take weeks to start working. That also likely is contributing to her not being a candidate for a skilled nursing facility.
I see on your profile that your mother lives in your home. Call the social worker at the hospital and tell them she needs placement in an in-patient geriatric psych facility and that you cannot accept her back at home. Your mother's psych situation is going to take weeks to sort out and that's done best in a hospital setting.