Background The practice of physical restraint in psychiatric emergency practice is rather frequent. Patients with substance abuse more often present aggressive behavior requiring physical restraint in such settings. The legal frame for such practice in our country is defined in the Law for the protection of persons with mental disturbances. Patients admitted to a psychiatric emergency ward were...

The environment in which acute clinical psychiatric nursing occurs actively militates against the possibility of 'counselling' taking place at a ward level. However, a proportion of mental health nurses working in this area continue to describe themselves as counsellors thus perpetuating a cycle of misconception. This article examines the reality of acute psychiatric service provision in an att...

BACKGROUND Patient violence against nurses in their work environments is a widespread global concern, particularly in the field of mental health care. A high prevalence of violent events impacts the well-being of nurses and may also impair overall ward climate. However, it has been proposed that nurses' use limited techniques to prevent patient violence, and, therefore, more comprehensive metho...

Ss were 40 male patients hospitalized on a psychiatric ward and defined as maladjusted and 40 male patients hospitalized on a medical-surgical ward and defined as adjusted. The medical and psychiatric groups were each composed of equal subgroups of low-competence repressers, low-competence sensitizers, high-competence repressers, and high-competence sensitizers. All Ss completed a social desira...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the proportion of psychiatric inpatients receiving primary interventions based on randomised controlled trials or systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials. DESIGN Retrospective survey. SETTING Acute adult general psychiatric ward. SUBJECTS All patients admitted to the ward during a 28 day period. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Primary interventions were classifie...

The Child Guidance Council has always been interested in demonstrating the value of psychiatric social work for adult patients. As far back as 1927, a worker was loaned to the psychiatric department of a general hospital, but it was not till 1930 that a beginning was made in introducing such workers into hospitals dealing with acute mental patients. In 1929 permission had been obtained for stud...

This study explores inpatients' experiences of ward rounds. Eight patients on an acute admissions ward were interviewed using a semi-structured interview. Data was analysed using content analysis. The findings showed satisfaction with the ward-round process, but participants identified issues that could be improved upon, with some expressing feelings of fear and intimidation. A number of partic...

Inpatient suicide is defined as during full or partial hospitalisation that takes place either on the hospital premises (hospital suicide) course of exits and periods leave, in grounds elsewhere. In this work, a descriptive epidemiological account given total 18 inpatient suicides committed over last 10 years stays at psychiatric ward provides mandatory care.

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to elucidate causes of aggression from clinical records of a psychiatric ward of a major urban public hospital where aggression towards Health Care Workers [HCWs] was the second leading cause of hospital work-related injuries after needlesticks. METHODS Psychiatric patients'clinical records for the period 2002-2005 were examined and coded. Data were analysed with t...