Thoughts on Connections and Control: A Letter From 2024 APNA Award for Distinguished Service Recipient,Dr. Diane Allen

Allen D. E. (2013). Letter to the editor. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 19(1), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078390312472369

Allen D. E. (2015). Does safety have to mean control? Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 21(3), Article 180. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078390315592450

Allen D. E. (2023, October 4). Disney world, Florida. Preconference session 1025: “Us vs. them” or “better together”? Why nurse-patient engagement is the key to safe environments” [Conference session]. American Psychiatric Nurses Association Annual Conference, Coronado Springs, CO, United States.

Allen D. E. & American Psychiatric Nurses Association. (2024, March). APNA transitions in practice certificate program [Module number 1: Key elements of a safe environment]. https://e-learning.apna.org/products/apna-transitions-in-practice-certificate-program-2024#tab-product_tab_overview

Allen D. E. Fetzer S. J. Cummings K. S. (2020). Decreasing duration of mechanical restraint episodes by increasing registered nurse assessment and surveillance in an acute psychiatric hospital. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 26(3), 245–249. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078390319878776

Bowers L. (2013). Safewards: A new model of conflict and containment on psychiatric wards. https://www.safewards.net/images/pdf/Safewards%20model.pdf

Polacek M. J. Allen D. E. Damin-Moss R. S. Ann Schwartz A. J Sharp D. Shattell M. Souther J. Delaney K. R. (2015). Engagement as an element of safe inpatient psychiatric environments. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 21(3), 181–190. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078390315593107