Staff Characteristics
Staff competence and listening skills have been identified as important priorities for patient safety. The article identifies staff and team characteristics as a key gap in mental health patient safety research. Prior literature suggests s…
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Staff competence and listening skills have been identified as important priorities for patient safety. The article identifies staff and team characteristics as a key gap in mental health patient safety research. Prior literature suggests staff factors may influence containment, conflict, restrictive interventions, and incident reporting. Staff characteristics such as age, gender, ethnicity, role, and experience may influence restrictive intervention use or incident reporting. Staff attitudes, values, and beliefs may affect efforts to minimize restraint.