Mental Health Care: An Introduction to Patient Safety Issues

Summary

People experiencing mental health issues face unique patient safety issues when receiving healthcare. This document helps the reader understand some of the mental health patient safety issues, including suicide and self-harm, violence and aggressive behaviour, restraint use and seclusion and absconding, all of which directly impact patient care. Learning objectives for this downloadable module aims to help the reader understand systems thinking and understand system-engineering approaches to patient safety in mental health.