Forensic Nurses

The authors, nurse, psychiatrist and dual diagnosis program manager researched from the centre of addiction and mental health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The author’s intent is to describe the role of forensic nurses in assessing and managing risk of violent decline in offenders who have mental illness in forensic psychiatric mental health settings. The target audience is offenders who have mental illness, and nurses. This article presents risk assessment of forensic patient nurses’ role. It describes forensic patient as individuals who have mental illness and are in the care of the criminal justice system, however; these individuals have major mental illness which could be one or combination of schizophrenia, person with substance abuse and