Citation

Doyle J. Perspect. Psychiatr. Care 1999; 35(1): 29-35.

Affiliation

Faculty of Health, University of Western Sydney, Macarther, Cambelltown, NSW, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10335262

Abstract

TOPIC: Factors influencing the practice of psychiatric nursing in Australian prisons. METHODS: A qualitative study of psychiatric nurses (N = 30) working in a prison. FINDINGS: The psychiatric nurses identified the following factors as influencing their work: challenging patients, threats to personal survival of patients, the technology and artifice of confinement, conflicting values of nurses and corrections staff, stigma by association, and prisoner identification of the nurses with prison administration. CONCLUSIONS: Psychiatric nurses who work in forensic settings must adapt to less than optimal practice conditions.

Language: en