Implementation and testing of the opt model as a teaching strategy in an undergraduate psychiatric nursing course.(NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH)(Outcome-Present State-Test Model of Reflective Clinical Reasoning)(Report) Nursing Education Perspectives (1/1/2009)
...is considered so important in psychiatric nursing that critical thinking skills...teaching strategy for undergraduate psychiatric nursing students. Conceptual Model...medical diagnoses, assessment/history, signs and symptoms or clinical...

2010 OIG Work Plan: implications for rehab, skilled nursing, and psychiatric providers.(trends: issues)(Report) Rehab Management (1/1/2010)
...health agency outlier payments, quality of care in skilled nursing facilities, and payments for services ordered or referred...many of the OIG's planned reviews were on topics with a long history of consideration including bad debt, Medicare secondary payor...

Psychiatric nursing: patient dies during "take-down," US Court imposes supervisory responsibility, liability on nurses. Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession (7/1/2008)
A man with a history of mental illness was...take him to the local psychiatric hospital. At the hospital...in a quiet room at the psychiatric hospital pending the physicians...for a jury trial. The psychiatric nurse and the six aides...

Psychiatric nursing: facility followed the standard of care, patient's suit dismissed.(Case overview) Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession (6/1/2009)
The patient in question was admitted to the hospital's psychiatric department for treatment of depression. Another patient was...paranoia for treatment of schizophrenia. Her pre-admission history included reports that she had been "picking fights with almost...

MENTALLY ILL IN NURSING HOMES CAN POSE RISKS SOMETIMES-VIOLENT YOUNGER PATIENTS WITH PSYCHIATRIC PROBLEMS MAY BE MIXED IN WITH FRAIL, ELDERLY RESIDENTS.(FRONT) The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) (3/23/2009)
...was admitted to the nursing home despite a history of violence and was...according to the state nursing home inspector's...Pavilion, a Chicago nursing home, and he yelled...murder, and after a psychiatric review was ruled unfit...

A brief history of the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools: shaping policy through collaboration. Journal of the New York State Nurses Association (3/22/2007)
...May 17 through July 8, 1972. The Comprehensive Nursing course consisted of 48 hours and was taught by four faculty members as follows: Medical Surgical Nursing, 16 hours; Psychiatric Nursing, 14 hours; Pediatric Nursing, 10 hours; and...

Remembering 100 years of mental health nursing registration: the profession of mental health nursing has come a long way in the last 100 years. Gaining due recognition for this specialty has been, at times, a rocky road.(HISTORY) Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (12/1/2008)
...explanation is that mental nursing registration had less status...ambivalent attitudes of the nursing profession towards the mental health/psychiatric specialty. As Hester Maclean...1) Mental health nursing was quite distinct from general...

Research from St. Lukes Hospital Provides New Data on Age, Ageing and Nursing.(Report) Psychology & Psychiatry Journal (4/30/2011)
...falls in geriatric-psychiatric inpatients and develop...of 225 geriatric-psychiatric inpatients at a Midwestern...daily living, and nursing parameters such as...and medications. History of falls, impaired...Assessment in ...

New psychiatric guidelines: What ED nurses must know. ED Nursing (4/1/2006)
...information over a thorough history and physical," says...to recognize that a psychiatric patient can have medical issues and that many psychiatric symptoms can be caused...clearance is crucial to a psychiatric patient's treatment...Community, the ED ...