Restraint

Within the special education setting, students can sometimes act out, or possibly do something that could harm himself or herself or another student. What do we as teachers do? Many teachers have found methods of restraint and seclusion when the student needs it. Over the years there have been many cases of using restraint and seclusion and having it turn into abuse. By more cases of abuse from restraint and seclusion there have been laws set in place in order to make sure the student, teacher, and other students stay safe. According to Laura Strunk (2014), only 40% of restraint and seclusion incidents are ever recorded. Many teachers do not tell the parents the child needed to be restrained and for what reason. In the rest of Strunks article…

Relatively little research has been done on the use of restraints on the aging adult; this paper will be a comparative tool to show the different forms that are currently being used, its effects on the population and the interventions that are successfully integrated. Psychiatric patients sometimes undergo a phase of aggression and violence because of their mental health problems for example dementia. Management of such patients is a difficult task for nurses. Restraints or seclusion are come…

In contrast, the opposition may argue that despite the controversy behind the use of physical restraints, this method should be used as it promotes older adults’ beneficence and efficient delivery of care. In the article “Characteristics of Nursing Home Residents and Physical Restraint: A Systematic Literature Review” by Hofmann & Hahn (2014). They claim that, “Even though the application of physical restraint is highly controversial, the prevalence rates show that it is a common intervention to…

“We are going to have to restraint him!” This phrase is often heard on medical television shows, showing a patient put into a four point eagle spread restraint in response to something as simple as asking for a glass of water, but is this reality? Do conditions like this actually take place in today’s modern medicine? Physical restraints have been in use in the medical field for a long time, and their presence has developed in the media as well. More often than not, the media offers a nasty…

1. Colorado requires proper car restrains for children under 8 Colorado law defines a “child restraint system” (car seats and booster seats) as: a specially designed seating system that is designed to protect, hold, or restrain a child in a motor vehicle in such a way as to prevent or minimize injury to the child in the event of a motor vehicle accident that is either permanently affixed to a motor vehicle or is affixed to such vehicle by a safety belt or a universal attachment system, and that…

This very situation had happened in a case study done to remove restraints but raise awareness of alternatives to fall prevention. According to Nursing Homes, a Canadian trade publication magazine who has been in print since 1990 Eastern State Hospital initiated a reduction program to remove the use of physical restraints in their facility. This project they explain is a never-ending work offering staff education and training often, in alternatives to restraints. While the hospital cut the…

we had spoken to Lisa Edwards a Certified Nursing Assistance in the state of Indiana for over seventeen years. Accepting awards such as perfect attendance and C.N.A of the month several times Lisa explains as a certified nursing assistant that she has used countless types of restraints chemical restraints, physical restraints…

physical restraints in long-term care facilities and home care is still relevant in Canada as reports suggest a physical restraint use prevalence of 13.2% nationwide (Freeman, Spirgiene, Martin-Khan, & Hirdes, 2017). Despite available evidence indicating that physical restraints use does not decrease the incidence of falls, the most commonly cited reason for such interventions is to prevent injuries from falls (Möhler & Meyer, 2014; Shanahan, 2012). Accordingly, it is appropriate to further…

Patient restraints This research on patient restraints was conducted in the New Jersey State Division of Mental Health Services when one hospital unit had averaging 36 restraint episodes per month. As per their study, “the most commonly used management strategies were physical restraint (44%), sedation (35%), and seclusion (20%)” (Sclafani et al., 2008, p.32). Their study concluded that seclusion and restraint could even result in patient’s death. Clinical question: Are we following good ethical…

During the 17th and early 18th centuries, physical restraints were deemed a necessary and acceptable feature of refuge life (RCP 2009) (Fig. 1). Early physicians had considered psychiatric illness as “the loss of reason” and many supported the use of physical restraints to aid violent patients reclaim their “reason” (Iversen 2009). Therefore proving that the use of physical restraints in mental health is not an original tactic to managing disruptive behaviors, but this method has historically…