Healthcare · Behavioral health · Instrument
Walk the corridor. Look at what’s already mounted — including ours.
This checklist has the tightest constraint in the set: it is walkable from corridors, common areas, egress, and unoccupied rooms only — no patient, no observation of a patient, no clinician needed. Everything on it, you can see from a hallway.
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Behavioral health · walk-the-corridor
Eight things to see and ask — from the corridor
Note the answer, not a score. Nothing here requires entering an occupied room, observing a patient, or a clinician’s judgment.
1. Stand in a corridor. Look at every security device mounted — camera housing, duress button, closer, sensor, conduit. Could a sustainable attachment point be created on any of them?
Check the low ones. No minimum height — that is the whole point.
2. Look at the door hardware on an unoccupied patient room — hinges, handle, closer.
From the doorway. You are looking at fixtures, not a person.
3. Ask when the environmental risk assessment last covered the security hardware specifically — not the room, the hardware.
A document exists, or it doesn’t. Both are findings.
4. Walk to the egress door. If a code called right now, how does a responder get in — badge, key, or a call to someone? How long does the key take to arrive?
You can answer this standing at the door.
5. Where is staff duress on this unit, and could a staff member reach it from a doorway with a patient between them and the wall?
Geometry, not a person — where is the button relative to where staff stand.
6. When duress fires here, does it reach the clinical team on the unit, or a console elsewhere?
On this unit the response is the team on the floor.
7. Look for anything added after the unit was commissioned — a retrofit camera, an added sensor, a bracket. Was it assessed, or just installed?
Every modification makes the last assessment stale.
8. Ask how many patients are on one-to-one monitoring right now. Then ask how many are mitigating a physical thing that could have been eliminated.
That is the labor cost of a hardware decision, made visible — and the number is obtainable without a chart.
Nothing on this sheet asks you to observe a patient, enter an occupied room, or evaluate a clinician’s judgment. It is about the hardware on the wall, seen from the corridor. The people on this unit are patients, not hazards; the fixtures are what we’re checking.