Chemical restraints are used in forensic psychiatric inpatient care, however with caution as it
can feel like an assault against patients' integrity. When waiting for decisions on treatment …

There has been much recent literature about the need for appropriate policies and
approaches to ensure that patient's rights and standards of care are safeguarded. The focus …

Rationale Patients in secure forensic psychiatric care have reduced autonomy because of
the constraints imposed on them by compulsion laws. Thus, it is vital that nurses enable …

Mental health nursing in the forensic services is perceived as stressful as there is often a
tension between therapeutic and custodial processes. Clinical supervision has been …

Background Safety is of paramount importance to patients and staff in forensic mental health
hospitals. Previous research has focused on organizational and nurses' perceptions of …

Aims and objectives To describe what nurses want to accomplish in relationships with
patients who are hospitalised in forensic psychiatric settings. Background Relationships …

Patients find forensic psychiatric care inadequate in that they are not treated as individuals
and not involved in their own care. The purpose of this study was to describe patients' …

Restrictive practices continue to be used in mental health care despite increasing
recognition of their harms and an international effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate their …

Accessible summary• This study investigated the perspectives of mental health nurses
working in a medium secure unit, regarding the impact of the security procedures used to …

Purpose: Nurses working in forensic psychiatry often encounter offenders who have a
severe mental illness, which may cause ethical challenges and influence nurses' daily work …