The Use of Restraints in Nursing Homes

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The paper examines how the use of physical and pharmacological restraints in hospitals and nursing homes has been around as long as the institutions using them. The writer argues that despite the Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987, risk of injury or death are still commonplace, and this casts serious doubt on its further use as a sound intervention.

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"The use of physical and pharmacological restraints in hospitals and nursing homes has been around as long as the institutions using them. Today, the use of restraints in these institutions ranged from 41-64% at nursing homes and 33-68% in hospitals (Hamers & Huizing, 2005). The Health Care Financial Administration defines physical restraints as any manual method or physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment attached or adjacent to the individual's body that the individual cannot remove easily which restricts freedom of movement or normal access to one's body. (as cited in Cotter, 2005, p. 1). Use of restraints is ideally dictated by the desire to assure the safety of the patient or others from harm, even across cultures but to varying degrees (Ljunggren, Phillips & Sgadari, 1997)."

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