One of the international objectives in psychiatric care is reducing the use of coercion.
Containment methods are meant to keep patients safe, yet usually include coercion. Nurses …

Background Continuing education is essential in improving practical psychiatric nursing
skills. However, little is known about how knowledge gained in continuing education is …

Consumer aggression is common in acute mental health settings and can result in direct or
vicarious psychological or physical impacts for both consumers and health professionals …

Background There is growing public criticism of the use of restraints or coercion. Demands
for strengthened patient participation and prevention of coercive measures in mental health …

Objectives Reducing seclusion and restraint use is a prominent focus of efforts to improve
patient safety in inpatient psychiatry. This study examined the poorly understood relationship …

Background A new inpatient care model has been developed in the Netherlands: High and
Intensive Care (HIC). The purpose of HIC is to improve quality of inpatient mental healthcare …

Background Mixed methods research designs are becoming increasingly popular in nursing
to explore complex clinical issues and to generate knowledge useful to improve the quality …

Background: Individual staff factors, such as personality traits and attitudes, are increasingly
seen as an important factor in the reduction of coercion in mental health services. At the …

Recovery-focused care is now the preferred model of care that health professionals can
utilize to support people with a mental illness to achieve their personal and clinical recovery …

Introduction: The use of seclusion as a means of managing the extreme behaviours forensic
patients in secure settings is a controversial yet often common practice, despite there being …