Abstract Aims and Objectives Our aim was to examine the notes produced by nurses, paying
specific attention to the style in which these notes are written and observing whether there …

Consumer aggression is common in the acute mental health inpatient setting. Mental health
nurses can utilize a range of interventions to prevent aggression or reduce its impact on the …

This multiple case study explored de-escalation processes in threatening and violent
situations based on patients and staff members perspectives. Our post hoc analysis …

In this editorial to the special collection “Mental Health, Discourse and Stigma” we outline
the concepts of mental, health, discourse and stigma as they are examined through …

This paper describes the discourses underlying nursing teachers' talk about their own norm‐
critical competence. Norm criticism is an approach that promotes awareness and criticism of …

Aims and objectives To gain insight into mental health staff's perception of writing progress
notes in an acute and subacute psychiatric ward context. Background The nursing process …

Recovery, a model of care aimed at patient‐led nursing practice emphasizing autonomy,
hope and self‐determination, has in recent years been adapted for the secure forensic …

Background Therapeutic staff-patient interaction is fundamental in psychiatric care. It is
recognized as a key to healing in and of itself, or a premise to enhance psychiatric treatment …

Purpose This study aimed to illuminate the essential meanings of carers' lived experience of
regulating themselves when caring for patients with mental illnesses in forensic inpatient …

In the Canadian forensic psychiatric context, the concepts of risk and dangerousness
interact, intersect, and morph into the notion of significant threat to the safety of the public …