The Associated Press: "Violence against nurses and other medical professionals appears to be increasing around the country as the number of drug addicts, alcoholics and psychiatric patients showing up at emergency rooms climbs. Nurses have responded, in part, by seeking tougher criminal penalties for assaults against health care workers. ...
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August 12, 2010
July 26, 2010
ACLU Says Some Nursing Homes Use ‘Scare Tactics’ To Keep Psychiatric Patients
Chicago Tribune: The American Civil Liberties Union says in court papers that some for-profit nursing home operators are using "scare tactics" to persuade psychiatric patients to stay in their facilities...
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June 9, 2010
GPS Ankle Devices Track Dangerous Psychiatric Patients, UK
A leading UK NHS Trust has become the first to fit potentially dangerous psychiatric patients, including some convicted of murder, rape and paedophile offences, with GPS ankle devices that allows the authorities to track their position anywhere on the globe to within a few metres...
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December 29, 2009
Cultural and Ethnic Issues in Psychopharmacology
Since the inception of the modern era of psychopharmacology, psychotropics have been the mainstay of the care of psychiatric patients all over the world, irrespective of their cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Until recently, however, variations in treatment response across populations, including effectiveness, dosing strategies, and adverse-effect profiles, have received minimal attention.1,2
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November 9, 2009
Straight outta Bedlam
I've just found an odd study on whether rap and heavy rock music encourages 'inappropriate behaviour' in psychiatric patients when compared to easy listening and country tunes.It sounds like it could be something from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest but as I don't have access to the full text, I'm still not sure what the 'inappropriate behaviours' were (air guitar? MC Hammer trousers?)A compariso
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July 23, 2009
More real than real
An interesting aside from a 1983 study that describes how some elderly psychiatric patients experienced photos and TV images as real people with whom they could interact:A new sub-type of perceptual disorder was identified in 7 patients who treated T.V. images and newspaper photographs (e.g. a nude calendar girl) as if they were real and existed in the three-dimensional space. These patients talk
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June 8, 2009
Psychiatric Patients Occupy Around 15% Of Total NHS Bed Days
Patients with psychiatric disorders occupy around 15% of total bed days in the NHS - and have a longer length of stay than people with other medical conditions. Psychiatrists Dr Parvathy Pillay and Dr Joanna Moncrieff, from Mascalls Park Hospital in London, analysed hospital episode data for all NHS trusts in England between 1998 and 2008. They present their findings today at the Royal Colle
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