id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_psqbrmwurreu3icpgzakezvnnq Juliette Brown Safer Wards: reducing violence on older people's mental health wards 2015.0 4 .pdf application/pdf 3480 567 72 Through the Safer Wards project we aimed to reduce the number of incidents of physical violence on older people's mental health wards. We established a multi-disciplinary group who led on the project on each ward and used a Pareto diagram to establish the focus of our work. We established a dashboard of measures based on our incident reporting system Datix, including number of incidents of violence, days Each team identified factors driving physical violence on the wards, under headings of unmet Using driver diagrams, we identified change ideas that included hourly rounding (proactive checks on patient well-being), the addition of Days between staff injury due to physical violence rose The success of this project in our view lay in the involvement of ward staff in understanding the problems and generating local solutions which Violence on older adults' mental health wards may relate to active physical environment on the ward improved staff morale. ./cache/work_psqbrmwurreu3icpgzakezvnnq.pdf ./txt/work_psqbrmwurreu3icpgzakezvnnq.txt