Managing Agressive Behavior

According to Penguin English dictionary (2002), research is aimed at making discoveries, establishing facts or enabling new conclusions. Nursing research is essential in health car e setting. It can defined as a systematic and rigorous collection of data and used not only to help nurses but to clients behaviour attitudes and other factors that influence the delivery of care (Parahoo, 1997)

Polit and Hunger (1997), states that critique should reflect on the strength and weakness of research through objective and balanced consideration. It stands to reason that nurses need to understand the ethical implication of using different methodology theory in order to protect patients. Based on evidence, this can be done by understanding how research is done, the definition of data collection and how to interpret findings (Tschudin, 2002).

However, one can argue that not all research findings are to be believed (Hunt, 1987). A good research should capture the problem and find ways to improve in the setting.

The phenomenon of this assignment is to focus on patients who are undergoing treatment in a high secure forensic. This will highlight how violence toward healthcare workers is commonly encountered in mental health care setting in Australia. Therefore, two key areas that will be identified is firstly, factors leading to aggressive behaviour and secondly, strategies to reduce the risk of such behaviour. The selected article to critically examine is entitled ‘Aggressive behaviour in the high secure forensic setting: the perception of patients’. The work on this paper was taken from the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing in Australia. With relevant research and literature, it will support the work of Parahoo (1997) and P...

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...believes it is important to perceive feelings of other persons and the ability to communicate with them listening is a basic skill in communication.

A practical suggestion is to address the social and organisational factors that underpin aggressive behaviour. The researcher did not identify the triggers of aggression but interestingly, looked at patient’s views on the cause and management of aggression.

When aggressive episodes are managed in therapeutic ways, patients gain a sense of trust and control over their situations. They feel balanced, calm, and secure (Skovdahl et al., 2003b). As for nurses, when patient aggression is managed in a therapeutic manner, nurses have a sense of balance and well-being. They tend to find their work stimulating, challenging, and fun (Skovdahl et al., 2003b).

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