• To provide a safe, structure environment in which clients can increasingly assume responsibility for themselves.
• To treat people as individuals, respecting their rights to dignity and autonomy.
• To provide an atmosphere conducive to the care of people with mental health problems.
• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care on an individual basis in order to aid the return of the person to a suitable environment in the community as soon as possible.
• To promote mental well being.
• To provide education on mental illness/well-being to carers and clients.

• Observation areas
• Sitting rooms
• Smoking room
• Bathroom/Shower facilities
• Toilet areas
• Group room
• Bedrooms
• Dinning area
• Relaxation room

• Make themselves known to the client, relatives and carers.
• Ensure a comprehensive assessment of needs is carried out; a care plan based on the assessment is completed and implement; regular evaluations of the care plan and the clients needs are carried out.
• Ensure the client is involved in the care planning process
• Ensure that regular mental state assessments are carried out and documented.
• Ensure that clients are provided with information on their diagnosis and treatment.
• Spend structured time each day with their clients.
• Work closely with medical and other disciplines to ensure high quality of care is provided.
• Plan/Co-ordinate discharge/transfer to another facility.

• No visitor shall be allowed on the ward if they have, or are suspected of having taken drugs or alcohol.
• Visitors should conduct themselves in an orderly manner and ensure that any children accompanying them do likewise.
• Relatives / friends should not visit during times when a client is scheduled for therapy or at meal times.
• Visitors shall not be permitted to visit after 9pm, without the permission of the nurse in charge.
• In the interests of other clients, visitors should restrict themselves to designated visiting areas and adhere to the hospital smoking policy.
• Facilities are available for visitors to obtain beverages in the snack room.

• To provide the care which the patient cannot provide for him/herself at the time.
• To provide intensive and individualised treatment programmes of care for each patient. Appropriate methods of assessment and monitoring will be used to facilitate the evaluation of treatment programmes.
• To provide and maintain a safe physical environment for the patient.
• To provide a safe structure in which the patients can increasingly assume responsibility for themselves and their behaviour.
• To return responsibility for the patient to the catchment area team as soon as it is reasonable to do so.

• Patients should normally be aged 16 to 65 years old.
• Patients over the age of 65 years will need special consideration and assessment of their physical condition prior to acceptance by the Intensive Care Unit.
• Individuals who require third level supervision as defined in “Levels of Observation/Supervision”.
• All patients who represent a risk to themselves or others within an open environment due to their illness.
• Admissions should normally be discussed with the Consultant.

• When it is deemed that the patient is ready for discharge/transfer from the ICU, representatives of the patients multi-disciplinary team and other agencies, as appropriate, will be invited to participate in the review of the patients; condition and to agree a future care plan.
• Following Transfer or discharge from ICU, patients may be referred for further care and treatment when the facility of a secure environment is needed again.

• Be primarily for the benefit of the patient. Its main aim should be, so far as is possible, to improve health and reduce handicaps, including social handicap.
• Protect the safety of the patient and others. In the course of treatment or in the interest of safety, restriction of liberty may be necessary but should never be used as a punishment.
• Respect the patient’s dignity, privacy and rights to basic requirements.
• Ensure that the patient knows his/her Key Worker/Primary Nurse and their role.

GRANSHA HOSPITAL
Female Clinic/Male Clinic
Gransha Park
Clooney Road
Londonderry
Telephone: 02871 860261