title: Celebrating our past. The history of Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital.
abstract: 1. There is a risk of losing important parts of our psychiatric nursing history as a result of the rapid rate of mental health reform and the closing or changing of governance of major psychiatric facilities. 2. Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital provided leadership in psychiatric nursing in Canada for more than a century and is now changing governance from being a provincial psychiatric hospital to part of a community general hospital. 3. The hospital's tradition includes nonrestrictive care policies that have been in place for more than a century, a humanistic approach to care, being the first facility in Canada to require theory-based nursing care from all nursing staff, innovative practice models, and achieving authorship or co-authorship from more than 17% of the RN staff.
authors.affiliation: University of Western Ontario, Lawson Research Institute, 375 South Street, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 4G5.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Forchuk
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tweedell
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000266:history*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000266:history*; D009864:Ontario; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000266:history*