Safety in psychiatric nursing care

The subject of this bachelor thesis is to map which safety measures are applied while providing nursing care to the hospitalized patients in a selected psychiatric hospital and determine which problematic situations are appearing in this psychiatric hospital in context to safety. On the basis of these goals research questions were created. Which safety measures are applied while providing nursing care to the hospitalized patients in a selected psychiatric hospital? Which problematic situations are appearing in this psychiatric hospital in context to safety? Work is divided into two parts, theoretical and empirical. In the theoretical part of the bachelor thesis we are examining psychiatric care, the most common diagnosis and their treatment, unwanted situations, restrictive resources and safety in psychiatric facilities. Information of the empirical part of the work were gained through quality research, used method was questioning, technique of data collection with half-structured interview. Research file was formed of 14 nurses total of which 2 were men, who were acquainted with the theme of the bachelor thesis, interview and their anonymity in advance. Documented interviews were rewritten through direct transcription and further analyzed with technique of open encoding, pencil and paper method. We created 5 categories and 2 subcategories. The results of this research are proving that safety at departments of the selected psychiatric hospital is good and sufficient according to the nurses, nurses are using severe precautions at patient intake and at providing nursing care, they are keeping hospital standard and directive. Even though nurses are maintaining safety when providing nursing care there are still a lot of problematic and unwanted situations according to the research