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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Psychiatric Unit"”.
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Falls Program on an Acute Psychiatric Unit
<p>In the metropolitan hospital’s acute psychiatric unit there has been an increase in falls incidence as well as need for evaluation of the effectiveness of Schmid Fall Risk Assessment tool in its ability to properly identify those at risk. In the last fiscal year there were 45 falls among 28 …
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Participatory Action Research in a Psychiatric Unit: Striving Towards Optimal Practices
The experiences of working in an acute psychiatric unit were investigated in this research using multiple qualitative methodologies, particularly Reflective Topical Autobiography and Participatory Action Research. The Participatory Action Research was undertaken in an acute psychiatric unit of a …
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Implementation of Violence Risk Assessment Tool on In-patient Psychiatric Unit
… acute care settings, particularly mental health units is increasing nationwide, causing safety and financial concerns for health care organizations. Efforts were made to decrease assaults directed towards healthcare staff on a twenty five bed adult mental health unit in a large academic …
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Training staff in a secure psychiatric unit to set boundaries and communicate empathetically with patients
… to the speaker. Patients who have spent time in psychiatric care emphasize structure and social relationships. Ensuring that structure and safety protocols are followed using limit setting strategies is effective in challenging situations. The present study investigated the effect of behavior …
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A Case Study Exploring Restraint and Seclusion Use in School-Age Children on an Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
… views of the R&S intervention used on inpatient psychiatric units for the containment of violent patients. Despite reports of physical and emotional injury to staff and patient during restraining and secluding children, the intervention is still in use. Using Machover's framework, a …
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An evaluation for the Therapeutic Learning Centre: A child inpatient and day-patient psychiatric unit in Cape Town, South Africa
… and importance for inpatient and day-patient psychiatric units, particularly for children and adolescents. These facilities, which are scarcely established in South Africa, offer multidisciplinary and multifaceted treatment to persons experiencing varying symptoms and conditions of mental …
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Patient factors that predict admission to an emergency psychiatric unit following deliberate self-harm in an urban hospital in South Africa
… is known about the factors associated with psychiatric admission following an act of deliberate self-harm (DSH) in South Africa. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the sociodemographic and clinical factors which differentiated DSH patients who were admitted to an emergency …
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Don't mind me, I'm just the parent : an investigation into the therapeutic alliance between staff and parents in a child in-patient psychiatric unit
… between staff andparents in a child in-patient psychiatric unit, namely the Therapeutic Learning Centre T.L.C), at the Red Cross Children's Hospital in Cape Town. The aims of the study were to firstly, explore how parents experience the process of admission and treatment of their child to a …
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Current Practices in General Hospital Group Psychotherapy
… of inpatient group therapy in general hospital psychiatric units in a southeastern state and to determine whether there was a need for a more systematic method of designing, implementing, and evaluating general hospital group therapy. A second major purpose was to test a model to determine if it …
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Mental health and couple communication
… with MDD who were recruited from an inpatient psychiatric unit and a comparison group. This research was conducted to identify initiate/avoid communication styles in these two groups using the Initiator Style Questionnaire (ISQ; Denton & Burleson, 2007) and to determine whether these …
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Providing the "Release" Through an Art Therapy Journal While Promoting Insight: For Adolescent Self-INjurers
… research was conducted on an adolescent locked psychiatric unit, located in Northern California. The form of research design is descriptive. The data was collected through self and significant other reports, and written and image responses. The journal was proven to be an effective form of …
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Managing Depression: Stories of Patients and Their Families Pursuing Mental Health after Psychiatric Hospitalization
… in a relapse prevention program at an inpatient psychiatric unit with a diagnosis of major depression for the purpose of determining their experiences post-discharge in practicing relapse prevention and in pursuing and maintaining wellness in their mental health. It relied upon narrative theory, …
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PATIENT LENGTH OF STAY: PREDICTIVE VARIABILITY AMONG FORENSIC AND CIVIL PSYCHIATRIC UNITS AND POPULATIONS
Patient length of stay (LOS) in psychiatric inpatient services has become one of the most popular but least understood measures of treatment efficiency and total cost of care. The initiative to decrease LOS in an effort to reduce total treatment costs will ultimately be more costly, unless LOS …
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Outcomes of preadolescent children after inpatient psychiatric admission: a scoping review and qualitative study
… health disorders are, however, admitted for psychiatric inpatient care. The majority of those are adolescents who present with emerging serious mental health disorders. Very little is known about inpatient admission of preadolescent children (under 13 years) with mental health disorders. A …
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Elevated Blood Glucose Levels in the Emergency Department: Missed Opportunity for Informing and Referring
… (n=8) were transferred to another hospital or a psychiatric unit for admission. Of those discharged (n=45), only one patient (2.2%) was informed about the elevated blood glucose level and referred for follow-up.
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Fall Prevention in Acute Psychiatric Patients
… there are limited studies done in inpatient psychiatric settings. The acute-psychiatric unit at a large metropolitan hospital has seen an increase in falls in the last year, yet current interventions have not addressed this issue.</p> <p>The purpose of this project is to conduct an assessment …
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Age-related Differences in Patient Outcomes and Factors Associated with Psychiatric Stays at the Dube Centre, Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon
… by age-specific services. Unfortunately, psychiatric care for older adults is undifferentiated from that of younger patients and as a result, mental health services are better suited to cater to the needs of younger patients. We sought to examine the differences in outcomes between older …
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Documenting of care arrangements for children of mothers admitted to a psychiatric hospital: A South African case study
… a large government run tertiary female inpatient psychiatric unit in Cape Town, regarding the enquiring and documenting practice within the first 24 hours of admission, of these care arrangements. Methods: The study is a cross sectional study using a mixed methods approach including: i) a case …
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The Relationship Between Maternal Psychopathology and Acute Treatment Outcomes of Children and Adolescents Diagnosed With Anorexia Nervosa
… that maternal psychopathology influences the psychiatric status of children. However, there is a lack of research in the eating disorder literature pertaining to the impact of maternal psychopathology, specifically related to depression and eating disordered cognitions, on a child or …
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Justifying Coercion: Nurses' Experiences Medicating Involuntary Psychiatric Patients
… theory study delineates the process inpatient psychiatric nurses use to respond to the challenging nursing problem of medicating resistant involuntary patients. Since approximately one third of all admissions to psychiatric units in the United States are involuntary (Durham, 1996), caring for …
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