Psychiatric intensive care
Patient ethnicity and three psychiatric intensive care units compared: the Tompkins Acute Ward Study
... Psychiatric Intensive Care Units have been in existence from at least the 1970s and probably earlier (Crowhurst & Bowers 2002), and consist of small wards with higher staffing levels and greater ...
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Acceptability and use of coercive methods across differing service configurations with and without seclusion and/or psychiatric intensive care units
... acute psychiatric wards in the Netherlands reported almost one aggressive incidence per day for every twenty patients (Nijman et ...Swedish care settings described prevalence of being assaulted approaching ...
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Factors associated with use of psychiatric intensive care and seclusion in adult inpatient mental health services
... ratios and greater levels of security; in the UK, such wards are referred to as psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs). Another such intervention is seclusion, where the patient is isolated in a ...
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First results of a refeeding program in a psychiatric intensive care unit for patients with extreme anorexia nervosa
... This study investigated a subsample of approximately 100 patients with AN and severe underweight who had been admitted to our hospital between 2000 and 2013. Some patients were admitted two or three times because of ...
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Evaluation of Aggressive Behaviour Management in PICU (Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit): A Focus Group Study
... a Psychiatric Intensive Care ...of psychiatric crisis. PICU is a combination of psychiatric emergency services and intensive services, which can be held in psychiatric ...
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Seclusion and Psychiatric Intensive Care Evaluation Study (SPICES): Combined qualitative and quantitative approaches to the uses and outcomes of coercive practices in mental health services
... of psychiatric inpatient care is to keep acutely ill patients and those around them safe from ...to psychiatric intensive care are two common ...By psychiatric intensive ...
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Patients' experiences of psychiatric intensive care: An interpretive phenomenological analysis
... to psychiatric intensive care, the discussion within this project endeavoured to achieve this through literature whereby parallels could be drawn to illuminate the as yet unexplored experiences of ...
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Psychiatric intensive care units: A literature review
... their care, back to their localities and communities of origin also accelerated this ...new psychiatric units, usually attached to general ...access intensive care wards in the old Asylum, ...
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Acceptability and use of coercive methods across differing service configurations with and without seclusion and/or psychiatric intensive care units
... acute psychiatric ward, patients can be transferred to a ...provide psychiatric intensive care for patients who are in an acutely disturbed phase of a serious mental disorder and may have a ...
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Psychiatric intensive care nursing - psychoanalytic perspectives
... For example a 27-year-old male was admitted to a psychiatric intensive care unit (ICU) after jumping o the roof of an open psychiatric ward. During his admission to the ICU he continued to ...
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Factors associated with use of psychiatric intensive care and seclusion in adult inpatient mental health services
... ratios and greater levels of security; in the UK, such wards are referred to as psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs). Another such intervention is seclusion, where the patient is isolated in a ...
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Short term prediction of threatening and violent behaviour in an Acute Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit based on patient and environment characteristics
... Several studies with different interventions have been conducted to assess the effects of preventive measures on aggressive incidents [39]. Conclusions are difficult to draw due to shortcomings in the research designs ...
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Investigating professional quality of life in nursing staff working in adolescent psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs)
... institutional care is responsible to creating emotional distance in the nurse patient relationship, which may serve to reduce compassion satisfaction but also protect nurses from burn out and secondary traumatic ...
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Investigating the nature of mental health nursing within an Adolescent Psychiatric Intensive Care unit : identifying nursing interventions that contribute to the recovery journey of Young People
... of care and the high levels of deprivation and disturbance expressed by the young people through violence, upon the nursing team’s sense of worth and wellbeing, symbolising a responsiveness to the nursing staff’s ...
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Metabonomics and intensive care
... Metabonomics is a relatively new scientific discipline that aims to explore the changes in global metabolic profiles in response to exogenous influences such as dis- ease states or treatments as well as host factors. ...
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Trends in intensive care in patients over 90 years of age
... The demographics of both groups, such as age, sex, and reason for admission, were compared. Any secondary acute illnesses of the patients were grouped together according to organ systems, and compared. The cardiovascular ...
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Assessment of delirium in the intensive care unit
... individuals exhibit labile emotions and disordered behaviour including absent cooperation with medical staff, removing catheters or lines, and attempts to escape medical care. Their symptoms often worsen at night ...
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Black and white patients' experience of their first psychiatric admission: Is there a relationship between negative experiences of psychiatric care and 'poor insight' in schizophrenia?
... the psychiatric care they receive at first admission, and to see if these factors, rather than social stigma, have a relationship to the reluctance to re-engage with services and, further, if this ...
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Three-year mortality in 30-day survivors of critical care with acute kidney injury: data from the prospective observational FINNAKI study
... Results: We included 2336 30‑day survivors of intensive care enrolled in the FINNAKI study conducted in seventeen medical–surgical ICUs in Finland during a 5‑month period in 2011–2012. The incidence of AKI, ...
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