title: Supervision of psychiatric patients.
abstract: Nurses are frequently part of a health care team providing services to psychiatric patients. From a health care and legal perspective, one of the pressing issues that must often be addressed is the amount of supervision or intervention required to protect the patient from self-harm or from injuring others.
authors.affiliation: Canadian Nurses Protective Society.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tapp
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D006801:Humans; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention