title: Psychiatric hospital challenges for healthcare security officers.
abstract: Security and Safety managers in today's healthcare facilities need to use creative thinking and resourcefulness, to juggle competing issues in psychiatric hospitals, wards, or units. Using a 3-step process of accountability, access control, and scenario exercises, these managers can mitigate the real-world risk assessment discoveries that might not be evident in well-documented facility policies, staff training, or even written surveys.
authors.affiliation: Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute, Falls Church, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Donald E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010355:Patient Identification Systems; D011329:Prisoners; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012637:Security Measures / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014481:United States; D014789:Visitors to Patients