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Acute psychiatric ward rules: a review of the literature
Author(s) -
ALEXANDER J.,
BOWERS L.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2004.00770.x
Subject(s) - psychiatric ward , aggression , perspective (graphical) , flexibility (engineering) , psychiatry , nursing , psychiatric hospital , medicine , psychology , element (criminal law) , statistics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science , political science , law
This literature review forms a background element of a comparative study of two acute psychiatric wards in the East End of London. The research focused on ward rules as a means of investigating the relationship between the flexibility/inflexibility of ward nursing regimes and patient outcomes. Previous studies identified a relationship between ward rules and patient aggression. Other studies identified a link between absconding by inpatients and nurses’ attitudes towards rule enforcement. However, an in‐depth exploration of psychiatric ward rules from the perspective of nurses and patients has not been undertaken previously.