It's standard practice when you enter a psych ward. The search is done behind closed door with 2 nurses in attendance.Q: The staff at a state psychiatric facility strip searched a number of patients after a nurse could not find her purse. I've been strip searched seven times. Every psyche hospital will ask you to remove your clothes. The individual plaintiff was subjected to a strip and body cavity search on his voluntary admission to a civilian mental hospital pursuant to a standing order. Mandatory full body searches for every person being admitted to the psychiatric unit at Rutland Regional Medical Center were discontinued. Section 18: Hospitalization of mentally ill prisoners; examination; reports; hearing; commitment; petition for transfer to inpatient psychiatric facility. (Psychiatric Effects of Solitary Confinement, Psychiatric Effects of Strip Search Procedures). 1980. Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union.