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	Humanizing a Psychiatric Ward
		From the beginning of the new ward program, the nursing staff expressed a wish for more responsibility and decision-making power than they had in the old program, but when explicitly given that power and urged to call ward meetings on their own initiative, they were slow to do so.
		The ward chief felt strongly that establishing an open ward would sacrifice treatment possibilities for a significant number of patients who could not be held in the h hospital long enough to get treatment underway, However, when faced with the intensity and unanimity of staff feelings against his position, he capitulated.
		However, when the ward developed to the point where the staff members could bring the treatment problems to the staff group or to the entire ward, we discovered that patients and staff could provide help, support, and creative solutions to treatment problems, that the therapist was not able to solve alone.
	www.deikman.com /humanizing.html (6106 words)

	Psychiatric hospital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A psychiatric hospital (also called at various places and times, mental hospital, mental ward, asylum or sanitarium) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness.
		Juvenile wards are sections of psychiatric hospitals or psychiatric wards set aside for children and/or adolescents with mental illness.
		Another type of psychiatric hospital is designed for long-term care, a combination hospital and prison for the "criminally insane," typically for people with a psychotic illness who have committed serious crimes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychiatric_hospital (2276 words)

	Psychiatry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Psychiatric outpatients periodically visit their clinician for consultation in his or her office, usually for an appointment lasting thirty to sixty minutes.
		Psychiatric inpatients are patients admitted to a hospital to receive psychiatric care, sometimes involuntarily.
		Psychiatric illnesses are sometimes characterized as disorders of the mind rather than the brain, although the distinction is not always obvious and has changed in the last few decades as understanding of the treated illnesses grew.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychiatric (2677 words)

	Ward B action expected (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		San Bernardino County plans to move quickly to correct problems at its psychiatric ward and to preserve its hospital's national accreditation, which is key to the county being able to pay for its new $478.5 million medical complex in Colton.
		Investigators confirmed complaints by Ward B workers that children were mixed with adult mental patients, suicidal patients were not always supervised, some patients slept on badly stained mattresses, and the facility at times was crowded.
		Ward B "is much more similar to an inpatient facility, like the hospital, than the outpatient services normally done by Behavioral Health," Shearer said.
	www.press-enterprise.com /newsarchive/1999/01/30/917678516.html (653 words)

	Romania: Memorandum to the government concerning inpatient psychiatric treatment - Amnesty International
		In November 2003 a representative of Amnesty International, who visited a closed male psychiatric ward in the Obregia Hospital in Bucharest, was told that many of the people who are brought to the hospital initially refuse to be admitted but are ‘persuaded’ that this is in their best interest.
		The problem of heating the psychiatric hospitals has been a chronic one and many establishments in the 2003/2004 winter period were again unable to provide, or experienced great difficulties in ensuring, adequate living conditions for their patients and residents.
		In February 2003 it was reported that the psychiatric ward of the municipal hospital in Roman had resorted to "medieval practices" to restrain violent patients, tying them down to the beds.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engeur390032004 (8582 words)

	Psychiatric Ward Restraint Death Lawsuits & Restraining Attorneys
		The use of restraints in psychiatric wards is often necessary to prevent patients from hurting themselves and others.
		However, psychiatric wards must exercise appropriate safety precautions to avoid the injury or death of patients.
		If someone you love has been a victim of psychiatric ward restraint death, do not hesitate to seek justice and call attention to this serious problem in the mental health community.
	www.sddefenselawyers.com /restraintinjuries/psychiatricwardrestraintdeath.html (215 words)

	Legislative Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Guardians, charged with protecting the health and safety of a person placed into their care as a ward by the state, are only able to admit their ward into an inpatient psychiatric facility for an extended period of time through a court-ordered involuntary (civil) commitment process.
		Psychiatric admissions are fundamentally different from general hospital admissions, since admission to inpatient psychiatric facilities entail a loss of personal freedom.
		Supporting the concept of allowing guardians to have the right to voluntarily commit their ward, while also supporting the protection of a ward's due process rights and civil liberties, are concepts that are in direct contradiction to one another in past incarnations of proposed legislation discussed in this position statement.
	www.mhatexas.org /Guardianship (1978 words)

	Compulsion in psykiatric treatment
		Upon the request of a patient in a psychiatric ward to be discharged, within 24 hours the consultant doctor is required to inform the patient whether he or she can be discharged or will have to be detained.
		It lies with the staff in the psychiatric ward to supply the patients’ adviser with all the information necessary for him or her to be able to fulfil the assigned task.
		If, in relation to being discharged from the ward, the patient is dissatisfied with a decision made by the consultant doctor that a co-ordination plan be drawn up for the patient, he or she can file a complaint to the national Patients’ Board of Complaints.
	www.im.dk /publikationer/tvang_sprog/tvang_eng.htm (2309 words)

	Hospital Faces Trial on Corporate Negligence Claim
		Pennsylvania's Montgomery Hospital faces trial on a corporate negligence claim after a ruling that the plaintiff had sufficient evidence of a "systemic breakdown" in hospital communication which led to her admittance to a psychiatric ward before a stroke was ruled out.
		The court based its decision in large part on the deposition testimony of the plaintiff's expert, who argued there was a breakdown in the hospital's handling of the plaintiff when it sent her to the psychiatric ward before ruling out a stroke as the cause of her symptoms.
		According to the opinion, that diagnosis led to Brodowski being placed into a psychiatric ward before ruling out the possibility of a stroke, even though a doctor and a nurse for the hospital later testified that physical causes should have been ruled out before admission.
	www.law.com /jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1130499500328 (1504 words)

	Judge commits eight family members to psychiatric ward over exorcism killings - CourtTV.com - Top News
		MEXICO CITY (AP) — A judge committed eight relatives to the psychiatric ward of a prison Thursday for the ritualistic slayings of two young family members that shocked Mexico with their brutality.
		Officials said the parents, grandparents and aunts of a 7-month-old and 13-year-old hacked the baby to death and fatally stoned the teenager earlier this month after they became convinced the girls were demons or possessed by the devil.
		A ninth suspect — an aunt described as the instigator of the slayings — was also sent to a psychiatric hospital after she became catatonic on the heels of her arrest.
	www.courttv.com /news/2005/1216/exorcism_ap.html (508 words)

	Violations against psychiatric patients
		Psychiatric hospitals are closed due to lack of funds.
		Psychiatric patients are sent to prisons and to the Ila concentration camp and drugged down with medicines with severe side effects.
		Psychiatric patients in prisons or living in the community under police control are not getting their cases tried in court due to capacity problems in the Norwegian courts
	www.svik.org /psychiatric.htm (1080 words)

	Psychiatric Ward Cartoons
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		The material I use comes from a psychiatric ward of a general hospital in the same city as Valhalla hospital, and consists of case records entered on a computer data base over a 5 year period in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
		I was given access to the records of the psychiatric ward for research purposes by the psychiatrist in charge of the ward, and for some months spent one day per week at the ward working on various research projects for the psychiatrist and some of his colleagues.
		Many of the patients accepted into the ward are 'acute' cases, hospitalised in the wake of a suicide attempt, because they had caused a public disturbance, or had suddenly become unmanageable to their families.
	www.criticalmethods.org /a8.htm (5876 words)

	Behind the walls of Ward 54 - Salon
		There, he was put in Ward 54, Walter Reed's "lockdown," or inpatient psychiatric ward, where the most troubled patients are supposed to have constant supervision.
		In fact, repeated interviews over the course of one year with 14 soldiers who have been treated in Walter Reed's inpatient and outpatient psychiatric wards, and a review of medical records and Army documents, suggest that the Army's top hospital is failing to properly care for many soldiers traumatized by the Iraq war.
		The hospital also cited a recent survey in which 42 out of 45 psychiatric inpatients surveyed, or 94 percent, felt that their care was either outstanding or good.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2005/02/18/walter_reed/index.html (1291 words)

	The Pain of Hospitalization
		On the psychiatric ward, the staff’s perceptions prevail over those of the psychiatric patient, whose viewpoint is usually dismissed as a mental distortion.
		The psychiatric patient (and their behavior) is explained and defined by specific psychiatric terminology and language that is generally foreign and unhelpful to the individual in recovery.
		If the psychiatric patient fears (further) bad treatment by staff (more sedating medication, causing all day grogginess, dizziness, being “out-of-it,” restraint and seclusion, the fear of staff-recommended long-term psychiatric care, etc.), a patient will stop complaining, with the belief that there is no point to arguing.
	intotem.buffnet.net /mhw/43AP.htm (2140 words)

	Psychiatric Ward by Andrew E. Busch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed.
		That Ward Churchill would embrace such a position—favoring real fascism while decrying the imaginary "fascism" of the American system—is bad enough, though no one who has followed his commentary at UC over the previous decades could be much surprised.
		It was a stunning demonstration of the intellectual bankruptcy of the left that he would embrace that position and then run scurrying for cover under the freedom of speech and the rule of law offered by that system.
	www.ashbrook.org /publicat/oped/busch/05/wardchurchill.html (1020 words)

	Violent Ward - Verden Psychiatric Hospital : Abandoned Photography : opacity.us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The doors in this ward were unique in that they had slots in the bottoms, no door handles, and a thick metal mesh screen.
		If you've ever worked the violent ward and had someone in a seclusion room urinate on you, throw their food back in your face, or spit or vomit through the slot in the door on you, you would appreciate the slots being located at the bottom of the door more.
		The violent ward was dangerous, between those who heard voices and those who feel that killing is justified.
	www.opacity.us /image3662.htm (1021 words)

	Franciscan Medical Center -- Psychiatric Wards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Two separate wards catered to mental patients--one for adolescents, the other for adults.
		The adolescent ward in particular was used for long-term care, and was therefore heavily isolated from the rest of the hospital.
		We had to walk through four separate sets of security doors before we were in the main ward.
	www.forgottenoh.com /Franciscan/franciscan4.html (147 words)

	PB -- eLetters for White and Karim, 29 (6) 207-209
		Our ward round is usually attended by nursing colleagues, occupational therapy, psychotherapist, social worker, community psychiatric nurses, family therapist, doctors and the patient alone or usually with their representatives.
		After words of welcome and introducing the staff, the patients were told that if they wished to see the team on their own, they could do so at the end of the round, and could either stay till then or come back later (very few patients requested this).
		Most patients preferred the communal meeting, but this may have been because the unit was run on group lines, and, for instance, had a ward meeting every morning, so the patients were accustomed to groups; in another type of setting it might have been less acceptable.
	pb.rcpsych.org /cgi/eletters/29/6/207 (707 words)

	Medical News Summary: 12 year old with muscle spasms sent to psychiatric ward - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by BBC News UK Edition): A 12 year old girl was sent to a psychiatric ward because she was suffering from violent spasms.
		When she was 23 she was finally diagnosed with dystonia.
		Sufferers tend to be referred to orthopaedic and psychiatric treatment instead of neurological treatment due to ignorance of the disease by GP’s.
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /news/12_year_old_with_muscle_spasms_sent_to_psychiatric_ward.htm (277 words)

	Psychiatric Times
		Patients and loved ones learn-in the course of psychiatric hospitalizations that occur at the same site where others go for treatment of pneumonia, for surgery and the like-that there is no need to be ashamed of being treated for a psychiatric condition.
		Frequently comments are made that the psychiatric facilities and patients therein "are nothing like I thought it would be." Such experiences generalize to the community at large through stories, newspaper articles and other means of communication.
		It is paramount, therefore, to maintain the presence of psychiatric hospitals in the community, an outcome that will require a reversal of some of the recent undesirable developments.
	www.psychiatrictimes.com /p001222.html (2030 words)

	A patient in a locked psychiatric ward is petting a rabbit
		A patient in a locked psychiatric ward is petting a rabbit.
		For example, a psychiatric service dog might bring patients their medication or lead them to a safe place when they are having a panic attack, explained Gonser.
		Information about using pets and animals in therapy with psychiatric patients is available on the Web at and .
	www.psych.org /pnews/01-02-02/petting.html (1045 words)

	Predictors of Length of Stay in a Psychiatric Ward Serving Active Duty Military and Civilian Patients Military Medicine ...
		Although military personnel are generally thought of as a healthy population, psychiatric hospital stays were found to be longer in service members than in their civilian counterparts.
		Even when the reason for admission involves a relatively mild psychiatric malady, the prognosis for long-term military service is poor.1 Maintaining a service member in the hospital involves legal and logistical problems not encountered with civilians.
		Information on psychiatric hospitalizations was obtained from administrative records from NMCSD covering the period from September 23, 1993 to June 18, 2001.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3912/is_200503/ai_n13452519 (819 words)

	Psychiatric Ward Gifts
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	Op-ed: Fighting in the Psychiatric Ward
		During my most recent stay in a psychiatric ward, there was one weekend on which no less than three fights broke out.
		As soon as the average ward fighter blows his top, he seeks to punish his opponent for "crossing the line," and all the trite rules and pamphlets in the world are not going to stop him from complaining that the person he just punched deserved to be attacked.
		Many of the people on the ward I stayed on were ex-convicts and at least some of those convicts, if not all, had engaged in fighting not merely before they had been arrested, but had fought in prison, too.
	www.newyorkcityvoices.org /2002junaug/20020807.html (468 words)

	Smoke-Free Psychiatric Hospital Grounds - Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Although the studies were not uniform enough to allow a meta-analysis, the recorded quit rates of patients with psychiatric disorders were similar to those of the general population.
		The purpose of this study was to measure alterations in the level of disruptive patient activity on a locked psychiatric unit after initiation of a smoking ban.
		After a private general hospital announced plans to ban smoking inside the hospital, the authors initiated a study on the psychiatric units to identify anticipated and actual patient-related problems associated with the ban and to assess staff and patient attitudes toward the ban.
	www.smokefreebc.org /content_misc.php?c=41 (3259 words)

	Psychiatric Ward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		was held in the locked psychiatric ward for the next 13 days...
		...Medical news summary describing 12 year old with muscle spasms sent to psychiatric ward in relation to.....A 12 year old girl was sent to a psychiatric ward because she was suffering...
		Crushing depression had led me to a suicide attempt, and from that the next step was admission to a psychiatric ward of the local hospital.
	www.standbyyou.org /psychiatricward.html (305 words)

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