Special edition: Inpatient psychiatric treatment: moving the science forward final.

摘要

We begin by thanking our contributors to this special edition on inpatient psychiatric treatment. Their research and clinical innovations define areas of practice that are critical to the development of the specialty. The methods used in the data-based articles will inform our thinking about innovative research and data collection schemes; ones which will advance the science and practice of inpatient nursesThe work of inpatient nurses is rarely documented in detail. The research of Sneed, Torkelson and Alnatour maps out how inpatient nurses spend their day and the myriad of responsibilities that nurses address in the service of a safe, effective unit.