That s how it felt to walk through the hospital door and enter the psychiatric ward for the first time.
Phych hospital locked doors.
With these requirements many mental health staff members maintain that ward boundaries such as locked doors at certain times for treatment purposes are crucial.
It found treating people with mental ill health in hospitals with locked wards as opposed to hospitals without locked wards does not reduce their risk of suicide attempts or of absconding.
A locked door may make the ward appear as both a prison and a sanctuary.
If a patient learns that certain hours are for working and others are for sleeping it may assist the patient in more independent living.
Structural and practical changes are needed to promote open door hospital policies and should be assessed in future research.
Psychiatric staff sometimes needs to protect patients from harming themselves or others.
The first time i entered those doors was 14 years ago i was just 16 and hiding under a very thin white blanket while seated in a wheelchair.
My parents escorted through the doors.
A little bit surreal.
It is important that staff try to minimize patients concerns connected to the locked door.
How locked entrance doors at psychiatric wards are experienced by staff working on these wards has been investigated to a very limited extent.