Post-seclusion debriefing: A core nursing intervention

Perspectives in Psychiatric Care

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 221-233

  Needham, Heather ^a   Sands, Natisha ^b  

^a EASTERN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Debriefing; Mental health; Nursing; Retrospective audit; Seclusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; ETHICS; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; ETHICS, NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING AUDIT; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT ISOLATION; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VICTORIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955081717     PISSN: 00315990     EISSN: 17446163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2010.00256.x     Document Type: Article

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