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A Qualitative Study of Factors Influencing Psychiatric Nursing Practice in Australian Prisons
Author(s) -
Doyle John
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.1999.tb00565.x
Subject(s) - prison , psychiatry , nursing , medicine , qualitative research , psychiatric hospital , stigma (botany) , nursing staff , nursing practice , psychology , criminology , social science , sociology
topic Factors influencing the practice of psychiatric nursing in Australian prisons.methods A qualitative study of psychiatric nurses (N= 30) working in a prison.findings The psychiatric nurses identified the following factors as influencing their work: challenging patients, threats to personal survival of patients, the technology and artifice of confinement, conflicting values of nurses and corrections staff stigma by association, and prisoner identification of the nurses with prison administration.conclusions Psychiatric nurses who work in forensic settings must adapt to less than optimal practice conditions.