title: Psychiatric nursing management of medication-free psychotic patients.
abstract: This article discusses how a team of psychiatric nurses manages acutely psychotic patients on a clinical research unit without the use of psychotropic medications. The article describes a schizophrenia research unit, identifies the behaviors of acutely psychotic patients, and provides examples of effective nursing interventions used on the unit. These interventions are grounded in principles of interpersonal psychiatric nursing practice and milieu therapy. The discussion is directed to psychiatric nurses and other health care professionals who are employed on research units.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Puskar
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McAdam
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Burkhart-Morgan
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Isadore
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Grimenstein
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jarrett
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006787:Hospitals, Veterans; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010414:Pennsylvania; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D012008:Recurrence; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000451:nursing*