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American Psychiatric Nurses Association Position Statement on the Use of Seclusion and Restraint

American Psychiatric Nurses Association Position Statement on the Use of Seclusion and Restraint Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Briefings American Psychiatric Nurses Association Position Statement on the Use of 1 2 Seclusion and Restraint sychiatric-mental health nursing inpatient psychiatric treatment. necessity for continuing the practice Phas a 100-year history of caring Therefore, as the professional orga- of secluding and restraining patients for patients in psychiatric facilities. nization for psychiatric-mental health persists. Fisher (1994) concludes Currently, nurses serve as front-line nurses, the American Psychiatric from his review of the literature that workers as well as unit-based and Nurses Association (APNA) recog- not only is it “nearly impossible to executive level administrators in vir- nizes that the ultimate responsibility operate a program for severely tually every organization providing for maintaining the safety of those in symptomatic individuals without the treatment environment and for some form of seclusion or physical maintaining standards of care in the or mechanical restraint” (p. 1584) Seclusion: “Seclusion is the involuntary day-to-day treatment of these clients but that these methods are effective confinement of a person in a room or an rests with nursing and the hospital in preventing injury and reducing area where the person is physically or behavioral health care organiza- agitation. However, the determina- prevented http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association SAGE

American Psychiatric Nurses Association Position Statement on the Use of Seclusion and Restraint

Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association , Volume 7 (4): 4 – Aug 1, 2001
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1078-3903
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Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Briefings American Psychiatric Nurses Association Position Statement on the Use of 1 2 Seclusion and Restraint sychiatric-mental health nursing inpatient psychiatric treatment. necessity for continuing the practice Phas a 100-year history of caring Therefore, as the professional orga- of secluding and restraining patients for patients in psychiatric facilities. nization for psychiatric-mental health persists. Fisher (1994) concludes Currently, nurses serve as front-line nurses, the American Psychiatric from his review of the literature that workers as well as unit-based and Nurses Association (APNA) recog- not only is it “nearly impossible to executive level administrators in vir- nizes that the ultimate responsibility operate a program for severely tually every organization providing for maintaining the safety of those in symptomatic individuals without the treatment environment and for some form of seclusion or physical maintaining standards of care in the or mechanical restraint” (p. 1584) Seclusion: “Seclusion is the involuntary day-to-day treatment of these clients but that these methods are effective confinement of a person in a room or an rests with nursing and the hospital in preventing injury and reducing area where the person is physically or behavioral health care organiza- agitation. However, the determina- prevented

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Published: Aug 1, 2001

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