Factors that can enhance resilience in mental health nursing staff who work in high-secure forensic hospitals
Commentary on: Rooney, C, Pyer, M, & Campbell, J. Leaving it at the gate: A phenomenological exploration of resilience in mental health nursing staff in a high-secure personality disorder unit. J Adv Nurs , 00, 1–13. (2023) https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15947 ### Implications for practice and research High-secure mental health hospitals, also known as high-secure forensic hospitals, are a specialism within mental healthcare.1 They have the dual role of providing a safe healthcare environment and a secure setting for individuals with co-occurring mental health conditions and behaviour that is considered extremely dangerous or high risk.2 Mental health nurses (MHNs) play a key role in providing healthcare and maintaining a high level of security within secure mental health services. However, the setting …
