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Abstract
Keeping every one safe is a serious responsibilit nurses remain in a unique and
challenging position in preventing and managing psychiatric inpatients’ violence. The
necessity of designing violence management programme adjusted to special needs of
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the target group and target setting was recently stressed. Therefore, this study aimed at
identifying the impact of a nursing educhional program for management of violent
psychiatric patients on nurses’ knowledge and practice. A quasi-experimental design
was used. The study was conducted at Port-Said Psychiatric Hospital which is
affiliated to Ministry of health, The study .involvcd all nurses working in this hospital
(41 nurses.}. The data was collected through. a quastionnaire to assess the nurses’
knowledge, observational checklists to assess nursing practice regarding verbal de-escalation
of aggression, safety measures , seclusion and restrain, as well as overt
aggression scale to assess the aggressive incidents, The data was collected before,
immediately after and after three months program implementation to ascertain its’
impact on nurses’ knowledge, practice and 1he aggressive incidents itself. The results
of this. study revealed that, there is a positive impact of the educational program for
management of violent patients on the nurses’ satisfactory total score of knowledge
about psychiatric patients’ aggression an adequate practice of restraint procedure,
verbal de-escalation of aggression and safety measures in addition to a decrease in
aggressive incidents’ duration and inappropriate nursing interaction as a cause of aggressive incidents.