In an emergency, when should a nurse obtain an order for restraints?
What is during the application or immediately after?
This type of restraint includes a seclusion room, half door barricades, Wander Guards, and secure units.
What is environmental restraint?
True or false: The clinical partner who has been qualified and judged capable of caring for the patient may document some of the observations.
What is True?
What are two steps that must be done before applying restraints?
Hint: This is before obtaining a physician's order.
What is identify the need for restraints and attempting and documenting alternative interventions?
True or False: You don't have to document the clinical justification/patient's condition that warrant the use of restrains.
What is false?
Who is approved to perform the face-to-face evaluation.
What is the Provider?
This type of restraint is a device or material that limits a person's movement to control their behavior.
What is Mechanical Restraint?
Monitoring skin, circulation, swelling and abrasions in the Violent/Self-Destructive patient is completed this often.
What is every 15 minutes (On the Violent/Self-Destructive Restraint Flow Sheet)?
Age-limited orders determines this with infants and children.
Hint: This has to do with order renewal
What is the length of time that orders are valid before obtaining renewal orders if the condition persists?
These 2 general classes of medications may be used as pharmacological restraints?
What are Antipsychotics and Benzodiazepines?
True or false: Trials or short-term restraint removals are prohibited.
What is true?