… This study examined the positive effects education has on reducing physical restraint
rates in acute care settings. Increasing health care provider awareness and knowledge of …

… provision may gradually discard the use of physical restraint. Physical restraint tools further
involve … and a shortage of specific updated training programs for health care operators. …

… physical restraint; however, for the purpose of this article, physical restraint is defined as the
use of any physical … physical restraint for PWD across health care settings. The reduction of …

… The conclusion of the study was that physical restraint could be a therapeutic intervention
when health … professionals for quality improvement of mental health care. The use of …

… of nonpharmacologic physical restraint minimization interventions in adult intensive … of
restraint documentation. All studies documented an initial decrease in physical restraint use, but …

… in mental health care. To influence clinical practice that governs the use of restraint, it is …
Therefore, this review aims to explore patient experiences of physical restraint in the acute …

… The critical care setting is perhaps the last major health care setting in which PR remains
a common and oftentimes unquestioned practice. Minnick et al. (2007) found that, whereas …

… associated with restraint use. In this study, change in physical health status was defined as
worsening of physical health parameters or transfer to acute care; the frequency of change in …

… of the health care team. Most urgent is the need for testing alternative interventions and
the possible elimination of restraining devices except under the most extreme, short-term …

… However, nurses still hold misconceptions about the use of physical restraints in acute care
… rectifying irregularities in physical restraint use are all necessary to improve patient care. …