Mental Health Risk Assessments of Patients, by Nurses Working in Mental Health Settings: A Qualitative Study Using Cognitive Continuum Theory

• DOI: 10.1080/01612840.2024.2320731
• Publication Date: 2024-03-19T15:54:00Z
• Authors: Darren Conlon, BN...; Toby Raeburn, NP,...; Timothy Wand, NP ...

Mental health risk-assessments are an important part of nursing in mental settings, to protect patients or others from harm. Even so, nurses often have difficulty identifying posing a credible risk (either self others), so guidance is recommended. However, despite extensive and growing body risk-oriented literature, comparatively little expands upon contemporary knowledge patient assessment. Therefore, it remains unclear how understand undertake their assessments. To address this gap nurses' decision-making processes, study used the established Cognitive Continuum Theory as novel means explore risk-assessment by working settings.