Abstract: Psychiatric nurses are responsible for working with large numbers of patients who suffer from serious mental health conditions in ways that promote recovery and ensure safety from harm by access useful information about the health and safety of each person. The aim was to assess the nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and skills towards psychiatric patient safety. A cross-sectional exploratory research design was adopted to carry out this study. It was conducted at 6 psychiatric inpatient hospitals located in cities in Egypt, involving 350 psychiatric nurses. Socio-demographic characteristics sheet, psychiatric patient safety skills scale, and patient safety attitudes, skills and knowledge scale. This study results revealed that while 79.7% of the studied nurses had sufficient knowledge. 53.4% of the s studied nurses stated that they had competent skills towards the psychiatric patients' safety. The study......
Keywords:Psychiatric nurses, Attitude, Knowledge, Skill, Patient safety.
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