When nursing homes, designed to care for older adults, begin housing aggressive patients with severe behavioral and psychiatric issues, the risks multiply. Dr. Asif Merchant is a physician and medical ...

At APNA 2025, researchers present a literature review that assesses the value of medical skills cross-training for psychiatric nurses. The aim of the authors’ leadership review was to demonstrate the ...

While currently, dangerous patients may be restrained only in a hospital psychiatric department, a draft amendment would allow such patients to also be restrained in other circumstances.

I estimate that there are 10,000 people who rotate in and out of locked psychiatric facilities or units each year in Alaska for a forced evaluation or treatment. State agencies, and that includes the ...