Nursing Restraints

Positive evidence to support the use of restraints shows that one can actually reduce the risk of nursing home neglect but not abuse. The reason for the potential reduction rate of neglect is because any patient that is under the use of any restraint, they must be carefully monitored during the process. First, the nurse must do a full physical body examination to check for any damaged area of the patient’s body where the restraints are going to be placed. After examination, placement of the restraint will be applied by the correct method of restraint desired. When the restraint is correctly placed the nurse then must write down a full report and explain why and how it is being used to positively affect the patients’ health. When everything …show more content…
Nurses may be using physical restrains correctly if we are going off a moral conscience, but it is proven that psychological restraints are being as a secondary measure to assess certain situations that a nurse may encounter. A chemical restraint is a type of medical measure nurses are beginning to use because the recent abolishment of physical restraints (Daly 125). An example of an emotional restraint is antipsychotics, this injected medication can take the mind over of an individual and make them unable to have control of their own activates of daily living. An investigation was done on several nursing home because there was a recent rise in nursing home neglect and abuse cases. The nursing home wanted to find out why it rates had begun to go up. According to 56% of the people responding, they accused the nurses of using an emotional restraint of some kind whether it be pain medication or antipsychotics (Goergen 23). The nursing homes could not further carry on the investigation because there was no actual evidence to the situation but only word of mouth