Safe Ward Model for Mental Health

This assignment delves into the Safe Ward Model, a framework developed to promote safe recovery for acute mental health patients. It outlines the six domains of the model, including patient community, staff team, and physical environment, along with interventions like mutual assistance meetings and de-escalation techniques. The model aims to reduce conflicts and containment events by fostering positive interactions and understanding between patients and staff, ultimately improving patient engagement and recovery.

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Name of the Student
Name of the university
Author’s note

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Health is the fundamental rights of every human being. As the members of this organization we
believe in dignity and worth of every human being and we recognize the primary responsibility
to preserve the health of every patient at any cost. As members of a health care organization, we
encompass the promotion of health, prevention of diseases and preservation and restoration of ill
health.
We the members of this organization, in order to promote safe recovery of the acute
mental health patients do ordain and establish the safe wards model of recovery. As the member
off this organization, we ensure justice related to care to the mental patients. We believe that the
safe ward model will improve the client engagement in promoting recovery for the patients in the
acute mental health units.
Safe ward model is the model that was developed in the United Kingdom by Professor
Len Bowers and his colleagues (Bowers 2014). This model is mainly based 'conflict' (incidents
that threaten the patient safety, staffs, suicide, self harm, absconding and aggression) and
'containment' ( things to be done by the staffs to decrease the harm to the patients, by prolonged
monitoring, giving extra care or medications and using restrictive interventions. We believe that
the safe ward model will be able to explain the rates of conflict and the containment events
occurring and will also help in providing interventions to mitigate the conflict and the
containment.
The six originating domains of the safe ward model are-
 Patient community
 Patient characteristics

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 Staff team
 Regulatory frame work
 Outside hospital
 Physical environment
We look forward to implement the interventions of the safe ward model which includes-
 To know each other
 Mutual assistance meeting
 Mitigation of bad news
 Methods for calming down
 Mutual expectations
 Use of anticipated words
 Discharge messages
 Reassurance
 Use of positive words
The main concept of the safe ward model would include-
 Safe ward decrease conflicts
 Application of the safe ward model will be able to remove the concept of restraint and
rapid tranquilization.
It is believed that the safe ward model will also improve the consumer involvement since it will
help to decrease the conflict that only slower down the pace of the recovery.
Things we would do to implement the safe ward model-

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 We will impart knowledge to the employees regarding the usefulness of the safe ward
model in healthcare practice. We ensure that the adoption of the safe ward model would
definitely result in better outcome as on its application; there would be an improvement
in the psychosocial understanding, increased commitment, technical mastery and team
work skills which help to mitigate the conflict and the containment rates (Bowers et
al.2012).
 Future research. Future researches would focus on improving the behavior towards the
patients such that it helps the patient to cope up treatment regimen. We believe that
adoption of the safe ward model will be able to create a conducing environment for the
mental patients (Bowers et al.2012).
 Education. We believe that proper education to the younger staffs of the organization
would help in following the safe ward model. Education should focus on engaging the
patients and the nurses to develop a reciprocal interpersonal relationship as these would
help arising of conflicts and battles. Hopefully the safe ward practices will assist the
nurses in developing skills for perceiving the links between the symptoms and
containment and the conflict. The nurses would be able to understand the psychotic
symptoms of the patient (Kinner et al. 2017). Nurses require an in depth knowledge
regarding the latest updates of psychologies. The nurse would be able to understand that
relationship between the childhood adversities and genetic inheritance.
Use of the safe ward models would help to keep the patient safe and calm. The adoption
of the safe ward models would definitely bring about a cultural shift in the clinical setting. It
is believed that the new model will help to reduce the episodes of violence, aggression,
seclusion and verbal assault.

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Mental health service faces high levels of sentinel events such as violence, aggression,
absconding and violence. To avoid these events often restrictive rules are adopted which can
exacerbate the condition of the mental health patients. Therefore we seek to use the safe ward
model to ensure a safer care to the patients and the staffs.

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Reference
Bowers, L., 2014. Safewards: a new model of conflict and containment on psychiatric
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Kinner, S.A., Harvey, C., Hamilton, B., Brophy, L., Roper, C., McSherry, B. and Young, J.T.,
2017. Attitudes towards seclusion and restraint in mental health settings: findings from a large,
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