The inpatient psychiatric unit as both a safe and unsafe place: Implications for absconding

International Journal of Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 304-312

  Muir Cochrane, Eimear ^a   Oster, Candice ^a   Grotto, Jessica ^a   Gerace, Adam ^a   Jones, Julia ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absconding; Australia; Hospitals; Inpatients; Psychiatric; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTIVATION; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SYMBOLISM; THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MOTIVATION; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SYMBOLISM; THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 84879302461     PISSN: 14458330     EISSN: 14470349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0349.2012.00873.x     Document Type: Article

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