Safewards
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News and dissemination about making psychiatric wards safer places. Check out the website (link below) for more info on model, interventions and implementation.
London
Joined May 2011
Geoff: "Safewards are designed by staff but also by patients."
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Katy Stafford, Mental Health Nurse and Geoff Brennan, Nurse Specialist in Learning Disabilities and Mental Health give a great talk about Safewards, a nurse-led model designed to create safer and more therapeutic environments within mental health inpatient wards. #NottsHCnursing
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Safewards can significantly impact recovery of trauma patients. Katy talks about a patient who was involved with Safewards and how it had a significant transformation for her. #NottsHCnursing.
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Another patient mentioned "Safewards has been a key part of my recovery"
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Katy says "Safewards has always been proven. Seeing patients having the confidence to lead on some of these interventions has been mind blowing."
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Katy Stafford, Mental Health Nurse, highlights our greatest tool as nurses is our relationships with people. #NottsHCnursing.
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Thank you to Geoff Brennan and @KatyStafford123 demonstrating to all in the room the power and purpose of Safewards - Chief Nurse,Diane Hull @NottsHealthcare #NottsHCNursing
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Dr Sophie Bagge, Lived Experience Lead for Culture of Care and Inpatient Transformation at @NSFTtweets, starts with talking about a Safewards Quality Improvement Collaborative. #NottsHCnursing.
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Reduction by 40% of physical and non physical incidents during period of doing Safewards. Which has been sustained.
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‘I’ve always wanted to be the voice of people who didn’t have a voice’ Today is #LearningDisabilityNursesDay! Five LD nurses tell us why they were drawn to the speciality and how it continues to inspire them > https://t.co/dKja1lPsbU
#ChooseLDNursing
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Patients from Arden ward making birds for our Poisitivitree with volunteers from Arc. #artismedicine #Mindfulness #MentalHealth #arttherapy #mentalwellbeing @PennineCareNHS @Djbatch07 @theRCOT @Safewards @mattwalshNDQ @PaulaLB27 @clare_bradl12
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We have had some amazing activities happening on the ward. One favourite activity is a nature walk in our beautiful secret garden 🌳🌷
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Safewards is a model that was developed in the UK by Prof Len Bowers. It specifically examines events known in the model as 'conflict' and 'Containment'.
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Benefits from Safewards: reduction in restrictive practice, greater awareness of conflicts, long-term cultural changes, enhanced patient experiences, improved staff morale and increased patient involvement.
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Safewards model of care pilot reduced violence in hospitals — to be rolled out across ACT https://t.co/Psn3kR9lPM via @ABCaustralia
abc.net.au
Canberra Health System has reported an increase in the number of occupational violence incidents. But it's not all bad news.
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Using tools like photo boards and finding shared interests, here's how Safewards is changing hospital care in Canberra
region.com.au
Canberra's patients should be experiencing a more supportive hospital environment as an internationally recognised model-of-care is rolled out across 12…
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SHN has taken a bold step forward in #mentalhealthcare, launching the first phase of #safewards, an internationally recognized model designed to make inpatient environments safer, more compassionate, and more collaborative. Read more about this initiative https://t.co/R0cwZwqo1W
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