Exploring the complexity of acute inpatient mental health nurses experience of chemical restraint interventions: Implications on policy, practice and education.

Chemical restraint research is growing with multiple healthcare disciplines increasing focused on understanding uses, harms of restraint and restraint reduction in inpatient mental health settings. Despite increased restraint research relatively little is known about nurses' experiences of administering chemical restraint. The research question guiding this study was: what are mental health nurses' experiences of using chemical restraint interventions in times of behavioural emergency on adult inpatient acute mental health units? The purpose of the research was to understand direct care nurses' first-hand experiences in use of chemical restraint interventions.

Controversies with routine urine drug screening.

Urine drug screening (UDS) is a tool often used in a comprehensive treatment plan-even though it may cause harm to patients with mental health disorders. This article analyzes nurses' use of UDS in inpatient mental health services and offers strategies to develop policy and practice guidelines that ensure patient safety.

The Missing Link: Exploring the History of Harm Reduction Nursing in Canada 1998-2018 to Provide Recommendations for Inpatient Mental Health Nurses.

Harm reduction is becoming integrated into the hospital setting, yet there is a dearth of published academic literature on the topic of harm reduction in mental health nursing practice. No results were found in a literature search focused specifically on harm reduction policies in the inpatient psychiatric settings using the databases CINAHL, Google Scholar, and PubMed. The purpose of this article was to provide a historical overview of harm reduction in Canadian nursing from 1998 to 2018.