@article{ref1,
title="The utility and effectiveness of 15-minute checks in inpatient settings",
journal="Psychiatry (Edgmont)",
year="2010",
author="Jayaram, G. and Sporney, H. and Perticone, P.",
volume="7",
number="8",
pages="46-49",
abstract="Implementing harm reduction is among the administrative tasks used for maintaining a safe unit for psychiatric in-patients. Such harm may be potentially caused by patients themselves or others. Included in nursing procedures implemented for observing suicidal patients is the practice of 15-minute checks. In reviewing the standard forms used for such procedures in several major hospitals across the United States, we noticed a wide variation in the format and use of 15- minute checks, as well as poor guidelines for their termination. We recommend that the observation practice of 15-minute checks be eliminated from the repertoire of nursing protocols for suicidal patients who are assessed to be at imminent risk for self harm on inpatient units.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1550-5952",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}