BACKGROUND The concept of ward culture has been proposed as a reason for the often reported differences in treatment decisions when managing inpatient aggression. We therefore studied whether staff on wards actually shares similar perceptions and attitudes about aggression and whether the specialty of the ward on which the staff members work influences these opinions. METHODS The Attitudes To...

Background: We developed a supplemental version of the Psychiatric Nurse Job Stressor Scale (PNJSS) to assess job stressors related to difficulty in supporting the future lives of patients, physical environment of the psychiatric ward and medical accidents in the psychiatric ward and tested its reliability and validity. Methods: We made a questionnaire of 11 items and analyzed the responses fro...

BACKGROUND Involuntary admission to acute psychiatric wards in Norway has not been studied empirically after the introduction of a new Mental Health Act (MHA) 1 January 2001. According to the MHA, observation with coercion can be used to clarify illness. The objectives of this study were to describe scale and circumstances associated with involuntary admissions. METHOD All patients discharged...

Authors in the presented manuscript concluded that number of patient handling tasks (PHT) is a more feasible measure of exposure when assessing the risk of LBP compared to more advanced measures of physical load on the lower lumbar spine. Present study involves different hospital wards (Orthopaedic and Psychiatric). By work profile in those wards should be different work demands (physical and p...

BACKGROUND Suicide prevention by mental health services requires an awareness of the antecedents of suicide amongst high risk groups such as psychiatric in-patients. The goal of this study was to describe the social and clinical characteristics of people who had absconded from an in-patient psychiatric ward prior to suicide, including aspects of the clinical care they received. METHODS We car...