'Safe enough in here?': Patients' expectations and experiences of feeling safe in an acute psychiatric inpatient ward

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 21-22, 2013, Pages 3109-3119

  Stenhouse, Rosemary C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute psychiatric inpatient care; Narrative; Nurse patient relationship; Patient experience; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENT CARE; ARTICLE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; NARRATIVE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PATIENT EXPERIENCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENT CARE; NARRATIVE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PATIENT EXPERIENCE; PATIENT SAFETY;

HUMANS; INPATIENTS; PATIENT SAFETY; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL;

EID: 84885836094     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jocn.12111     Document Type: Article

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