Nurse and patient factors: Predicting seclusion in adolescent psychiatric units.
Miriam K YurtbasiGlenn MelvinChristine PavlouMichael GordonPublished in: Journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing : official publication of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses, Inc (2021)
Nurses play a unique role in seclusion outcomes that are separate to patient-factors and act as both protective and risk factors for seclusion. Changes can be made to staffing to reduce seclusion and future research should investigate why these nurse-factors contribute to seclusion.