Improving seclusion practice: Implications of a review of staff and patient views

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 203-215

  Van Der Merwe, M ^a   Muir Cochrane, E ^b   Jones, J ^a   Tziggili, M ^a   Bowers, L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Patient perception; Practice development; Psychiatry; Seclusion; Staff perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EXERCISE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; METHODOLOGY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTERNATIONALITY; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT ISOLATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL;

EID: 84874733383     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: 13652850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2012.01903.x     Document Type: Article

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