Brenner, Drennan, Treacy, and Fealy, (2015) mentioned that the practice of limiting a child for a medical procedure is an implicit and vital part in the care of children in hospital. After a pediatric heart catheterization, a Syvek patch, gauze, elastoplast, and pressure is held on the arterial puncture site for approximately thirty minutes. At Cook Childrens Medical Center, the practice was to place infants and small children in a papoose. However, this temporarily restrained and frightened patients as they woke up from anesthesia. Brenner, Drennan, Treacy, and Fealy, (2015) reported that the predictors of restricting a child for a medical procedure reside in nurse, patient and situational factors. In an attempt to be a restraint free procedure,
