[Handling of potentially critical items in acute psychiatry (a study of the Federal Directors Conference)].

DISCUSSION: The nationwide survey provided feedback from 39 psychiatric hospitals throughout Germany. The results confirmed a broad critical awareness of potentially dangerous objects; however, the handling of these objects proved to be heterogeneous. Psychiatric clinics and departments have been practicing the control and securing of these objects for decades but there is a lack of written recommendations for handling them. In everyday life, the handling of these objects is taught within the ward, through the ward rules and/or orally. This illustrates a lack of uniform nationwide regulations or guidelines in Germany and thus the lack of corresponding written instructions for handling. PMID: 33313959 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Der Nervenarzt - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Nervenarzt Source Type: research