Nursing - Assessment of Safety in Environment

Co-Chairs
Diane E. Allen MN, RN-BC, NEA-BC
Kathleen R. Delaney PhD, PMH-NP, RN

Vision
The Institute for Safe Environments (ISE) provides an integrated structure designed to thoughtfully address issues that impact the safety of persons served as well as service providers.

Goals

1. Identify issues related to safe environments
2. Explore current evidence related to issues
3. Recommend strategies to promote safe, evidence-based, best practices

Key Components/Elements of a “Safe” Environment

Identified by members of the Institute for Safe Environments

2. Engagement
(Safety via staff efforts to engage patients, expert practices on de-escalation)

• White Paper: Engagement as an Element of Safe Inpatient Psychiatric Environments
  Michael J. Polacek, Diane E. Allen, Rebecca S. Damin-Moss, April J. Ann Schwartz, David Sharp, Mona Shattell, Justin Souther, and Kathleen R. Delaney. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. May/June 2015 21: 181-190, doi:10.11315593107
• Commentary on “Engagement as an Element of Safe Inpatient Psychiatric Environments” - Engagement Is Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
  Luc R. Pelletier. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. May/June 2015 21: 191-194, doi:10.11315593061
• Kathleen R. Delaney and Mary E. Johnson. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. March/April2014 20: 125-137, first published on March 25, 2014
  doi:10.11314527551
• Development and Testing of the Combined Assessment of Psychiatric Environments: A Patient-Centered Quality Measure for Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment
  Kathleen R. Delaney, Mary E. Johnson, and Louis Fogg. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. March/April 2015 21: 134-147, doi:10.11315581338
• A Clinical Translation of the Article Titled “Development and Testing of the Combined Assessment of Psychiatric Environments (CAPE): A Patient-Centered Quality Measure for Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment"
  Colleen Corte. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. March/April 2015 21: 148-152, doi:10.11315585104

3. Space and Equipment

4. Staff resources, education and training

5. Patient assessment and monitoring

6. Rules
(sensible application of rules, movement, visitation, etc.)

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