Inpatient mental healthcare settings should offer safe environments for patients to heal and
recover and for staff to provide high‐quality treatment and care. However, aggressive patient …

Aggression, conflict and restrictive practices present complexities in acute mental health
services, as do implementing service changes to reduce them. Existing published literature …

Background Safewards is an evidence-based practice improvement model to minimise
conflict in inpatient mental health units. There is limited published research on implementing …

Safewards reduces conflict and containment on adult inpatient wards but there is limited
research exploring the model in Children and Young People (CYP) mental health services …

Agressionsmanagement ist ein zentrales Thema für die psychiatrische Pflege. Safewards
zeigt, was Konflikte auslöst, und bietet praxiserprobte Interventionen an, um Aggressionen …

Introduction Restrictive practice use in residential aged care homes internationally is
unacceptably high. Although policies and legislation mandate the reduction or elimination of …

While forensic mental health has seen considerable growth over the last two decades, little
is known about the experience of registered nurses working in these environments. This …

Abstract The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People
with Disability was concerned by the level of restrictive practices revealed in the evidence it …

Introduction Nursing staff are frequently exposed to high‐risk patient behaviours within
inpatient health services, yet staff commonly report a lack of training and support in …

On Thursday 5 September 2013, Len Bowers, Professor of Psychiatric Nursing at King's
College London, stood at the lectern in a hall at Oxford University to present the results of …