Observation Hospitals 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...

Classifying nursing organization in wards in Norwegian hospitals: self-identification versus observation

BACKGROUND The organization of nursing services could be important to the quality of patient care and staff satisfaction. However, there is no universally accepted nomenclature for this organization. The objective of the current study was to classify general hospital wards based on data describing organizational practice reported by the ward nurse managers, and then to compare this classificati...

Nurses’ worry or concern and early recognition of deteriorating patients on general wards in acute care hospitals: a systematic review

INTRODUCTION Nurses often recognize deterioration in patients through intuition rather than through routine measurement of vital signs. Adding the 'worry or concern' sign to the Rapid Response System provides opportunities for nurses to act upon their intuitive feelings. Identifying what triggers nurses to be worried or concerned might help to put intuition into words, and potentially empower n...