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- Title
Bir Üniversite Hastanesinde Çalışan Hemşirelerin Fiziksel Kısıtlamaya İlişkin Bilgi ve Uygulamaları.
- Authors
KARAGÖZOĞLU, Şerife; ÖZDEN, Dilek
- Abstract
Objective: The study was performed to determine knowledge and practices of nurses working at a university hospital related to the use of physical restraints. Method: The sample of this cross-sectional descriptive study consisted of 160 nurses who worked at a university hospital. The data were collected through socio-demographic characteristics survey and Opinion and Practices Form for the Physical Restraints, and evaluated as mean and percentage distribution. Results: Mean age of the nurses was 29.98±5.91 years. The nurses stated that they applied physical restraints due to following reasons: to prevent the removal of the tubes connected to the patient by the patient him/herself (82.5%), to prevent the patient from falling out of the bed (75.6%). Of the nurses, 65.0% obtained informed consent either from the patient or his/her relatives before applying a physical restraint, 15.6% applied the physical restraint upon the physician’s order, and 58.1% recorded the type of the physical restraint, the reason for using physical restraint, application time, and nursing interventions on the nurses’ observation form. It was determined that the vast majority of the nurses did not implement effective alternative methods and the knowledge of the nurses about the complications of using physical restraints was lacking. Conclusion: It can be said that a great majority of the nurses used physical restraints in their clinics, did not obtain the physician’s approval to use physical restraints, and lacked necessary knowledge about the complications of using physical restraints.
- Publication
Turkish Journal of Research & Development in Nursing / Hemşirelikte Araştırma Geliştirme Dergisi, 2013, Vol 15, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
1307-9557
- Publication type
Academic Journal