Nursing: Restraint Reduction

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This paper proposes a study to determine the relationship between restraint use and fall-related injuries. It shows how exploring the difference both historically and currently between incidence of fall-related injuries will assist further research projects, and proposals by continuing to demonstrate the effectiveness of reduced restraint use for the safety of the patient population.

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"It has even become clear through research that something as simple as bilateral bed rail use does not meet the needs of the impaired patient in the nursing home. The standard of care associated with the use of bed rails and even the fundamental documentation of their supervised use has been a hard foundation to shatter, yet in several research studies, one of which will be detailed here there is a growing body of evidence that bed rails do not decrease the incidence of bed related falls in nursing home populations and might even increase such risk, due to the desire of the patient to care for themselves when there is no quick response from an overburdened nursing staff or when they are simply disoriented."

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