Objectives Patients in inpatient mental health settings face similar risks (eg, medication
errors) to those in other areas of healthcare. In addition, some unsafe behaviours associated …

The use of coercion in psychiatric and mental health nursing is a major challenge, which can
lead to negative consequences for nurses and patients, including rupture in the therapeutic …

Accessible summary• Demanding conditions in acute psychiatric wards can make it difficult
for nurses to provide good care to patients.• Interviews with nurses revealed that they use …

Coercive measures are commonly used as a method of intervention, despite insufficient
evidence for their effectiveness and benefits. The aim of this study was to describe how …

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

Family plays an important role in the care provided for patients in all areas of nursing.
However, relatively few studies deal with the focus of the present study: the ways that nurses …

Accessible Summary What is known on the subject? Communication between nurses and
patients is essential in mental health nursing. Lack of communication during seclusion …

BACKGROUND: Inpatient psychiatric nurses are a large workforce, but their work is poorly
articulated and thus poorly understood outside of the professional inpatient community …

Background Chemical restraint (CR)(also known as rapid tranquilisation) is the forced (non‐
consenting) administration of medications to manage uncontrolled aggression, anxiety, or …

Semi-structured interviews with 13 forensic psychiatric inpatients that had decreased their
assessed risk of violence were analyzed using interpretive description. The main …