Issues in mental health nursing
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Issues Ment Health Nurs · Jan 2006
Living among strangers: the needs and functioning of persons with schizophrenia residing in an assisted living facility.
The purposes of this research were to describe the quality of care for severe and persistent mentally ill persons with schizophrenia who reside in an assisted living facility and to explore the characteristics related to the identification of need and the level of functioning of these individuals. The specific objectives of the study were to (a) describe characteristics of the residents, (b) identify relationships among characteristics of residents and the level of functioning, and (c) analyze relationships among these characteristics and resident needs. ⋯ National and international agencies develop and implement assisted living facility standards that impact the lives of residents with moderate levels of functioning and multiple unmet needs, having implications for both practice and mental health policy.
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Issues Ment Health Nurs · Jan 2006
A study of psychiatric nurses' beliefs and attitudes about work safety and assaults in Turkey.
In Turkey, the cultural structure effects the gender roles in the society, and women are subject to violence in an intense manner both inside the family and in their workplaces. In nursing, which is still defined as a woman's job in our country, it is possible to encounter many aggressive and threatening behaviours. ⋯ It has been determined that nurses' rate of exposure to verbal/physical assault by the patients and their relatives is high and that they experience an intense uncertainty and conflict, especially in legal issues, and that the duration of working in the psychiatry clinics effects attitudes toward the assaults. It is concluded that the nurses working at the psychiatry clinics in Turkey are under risk in regards to safety and they need protection and support, both in emotional and in legal terms.