The aim was to describe the nursing staff and ward managers' experiences of safety and
violence in everyday meetings with the patients. The qualitative content analyses resulted in …

Background Violence towards staff working in psychiatric inpatient care is a serious
problem. The aim of the present study was to explore staff perspectives of serious violent …

Background: Fear and aggression are often reported among professionals working in locked
psychiatric wards and also among the patients in the same wards. Such situations often lead …

Background A major challenge in psychiatric inpatient care is to create an environment that
promotes patient recovery, patient safety and good working environment for staff. Since …

The article reports on psychosocial work environmenta within psychiatric inpatient care in
Sweden. Topics discussed include violence, stress, and value incongruence among nursing …

Little is known about how safe nurses feel on psychiatric wards across different European
countries. This paper is aim to evaluate how ward safety is perceived by ward managers in …

This study compared staff members' and psychotic patients' experiences of one and the
same violent incident. The staff exposed to the violence completed the Staff Observation …

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 …

Accessible summary• Violence prevention and management is an important part of inpatient
psychiatric nursing because both patients and staff need to feel safe and secure.• The …

Background: The deinstitutionalization of psychiatric care has led to a concentration of
patients to fewer wards. This leads to difficulties in separating voluntarily and involuntarily …