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Heading: Safety Features Designed into the Psychiatric Hospital
1. Describe two safety features designed into the units of the hospital. See: Boyd & Luebbert,
Chapter 5, Acute Inpatient Care, pp. 45-46. (write minimum one paragraph)
a. See: Hunt, J.M. (July 2016). Integrated Design: Safety for all on Inpatient Units. PSQH.
Safety for All: Integrated Design for Inpatient Units Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare
(psqh.com)-note this article is older than five years but give specific safety features that
need to be built into a safe psychiatric setting.
b. See: Pelto-Piri., V., Wallsten, T., Hylen, U., Nikban, I., and Kjellin, L. (2019). Feeling
safe or unsafe in psychiatric inpatient care. International Journal of Mental Health
Systems. Feeling safe or unsafe in psychiatric inpatient care, a hospital-based qualitative
interview study with inpatients in Sweden (biomedcentral.com)
c. See: Fletcher, A., Crowe, M., Manuel, J., and Foulds, J. (2021). Comparison of patients
and staffs perspectives on the causes of violence and aggression in psychiatric inpatient
settings: An integrative review. Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 28(5), 924-939.
Comparison of patients and staffs perspectives on the causes of violence and
aggression in psychiatric inpatient settings: An integrative review