from its genesis, islamic mysticism has relied upon asceticism and withdrawal from the world and its inhabitants, and there are numerous words by the great figures of such manner in line with this. world-escaping and retiring from the people is one of the prevailing ideas in this intellectual school which has been fashioned based on the actions and claims of its followers. however, numerous evi...

Aims Seclusion is a restrictive intervention used in inpatient settings for the safe management of patients who present with severe behavioural disturbance which likely to cause harm others. Clinical notes were establish if trust policy medical reviews seclusion was being followed on Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Methods Patients admitted male PICU at Springfield Hospital, Southwest L...

OBJECTIVES This article presents a study of naturally occurring attributions recorded by care staff following incidents of restraint in a psychiatric secure unit. The relationship between control for patient, control for staff and behavioural outcomes including use of medication, seclusion and duration of restraint were explored for male and female patients. DESIGN AND METHODS In all, 557 for...

PURPOSE To present an unusual case of simultaneous bilateral retinal detachment (RD) following a coronary artery bypass graft in a patient with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). METHODS A 78-year-old man was first seen for bilateral sudden visual loss after surgical treatment of AMI. The patient underwent ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) and ocular B-scan echographic examination. RESULTS The...

The development of intense warm-core seclusion (Shapiro and Keyser 1990) extratropical storms can occur from several different precursor disturbances. These include tropical cyclones that have undergone extratropical transition, maritime extratropical cyclones with both coldcore baroclinic and shallow diabatically generated warm core backgrounds (Moore and Montgomery 2004), and polar lows. With...

The article, "Seclusion Practice in a Canadian Foren sic Hospital," by A. G. Ahmed and M. Lepnurm1 evokes further questions about the use of seclusion and restraint in psychiatric hospitals. This subject remains at the heart of intense debatewithin psychi atric and consumergroups, and recently there have been legislative interventions that have intensified the discussion. Although most of the d...

To assess the association between different types of coercive measures (forced medication, seclusion, and restraint) used during involuntary psychiatric admission and two treatment outcomes: retrospective views of patients towards their admission and length of inpatient stay. A secondary analysis was conducted of data previously gathered by the EUNOMIA study (n = 2030 involuntarily detained inp...

Trauma-informed care is an emerging value that is seen as fundamental to effective and contemporary mental health nursing practice. Trauma-informed care, like recovery, leaves mental health nurses struggling to translate these values into day-to-day nursing practice. Many are confused about what individual actions they can take to support these values. To date, the most clearly articulated poli...