Nursing-change theory, patient restraints

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Patient Restraint 1 Running head: PATIENT RESTRAINT PROTOCOLS Patient Restraint Protocols Patient Restraint 2 Patient restraints have been a hot issue within the past ten to fifteen years in nursing. There have been numerous studies done on the adverse affects restraints have on patients, physiologically and psychologically. Anger, fear, impaired mobility, bladder and bowel incontinence, eating difficulty, skin breakdown, and nosocomial infections have all been associated with the use of restraints (Weeks, 1997; Janelli, 1995). Therefore, there has been …

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