Observation Hospital or Wards for Early Cases of Mental Disturbance

Mental Nursing in Observation Wards

Mental Nursing in Observation Wards

" What can there be more fascinating to the intelligent man and woman to-day than the study of disorders of the mind? What can there be more thrilling than the power to grasp the inner meaning of a mental disorder, to know why the intricate mental machine has jumped the rails?what more exciting than to exercise knowledge and skill to raise it gently into position again and once more restore its...

Observation of cases of hanging treated in medical wards.

We observed twenty cases of hanging over a period of six years of which 14 were males and six females. All were below fifty years of age. They used plastic ropes, jute ropes, dhotis, and sarees. Five of the females used sarees; suggesting that object used for ligature depends on accessibility to the object. All these cases happened in peridomestic areas like bath room, bed room, trees in the ba...

Towards a Tomographic Framework for Structured Observation of Communicative Behaviour in Hospital Wards

The research presented in this paper investigates how observation of informationand communication-intensive work in hospital wards can be used to produce requirements for mobile clinical information systems. Over a number of years, we have explored how important properties of clinical situations can be captured through structured observations of actors, processes, and systems. In the paper, we ...

Accidents on hospital wards.

Eight hospitals reported 781 non-iatrogenic accidents occurring to patients and visitors under 16 years of age during an 18 month period up to October 1989. Accidents more often involved boys and children aged 3 to 5 years old. Falls from a height, slips, and striking accidents were common by day and falls by night. A total of 41% of accidents to inpatients occurred when parents were present. O...