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Seclusion and Restraint Standards: A Platform for Creating Safety for Patients and Staff

Seclusion and Restraint Standards: A Platform for Creating Safety for Patients and Staff Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Editorial Seclusion and Restraint Standards: A Platform for Creating Safety for Patients and Staff etween the 1999 Seclusion and were all on the journey of change, sional standards, and we have an BRestraint Interactive Session at albeit, in different phases. Many par- ethical responsibility to adhere to the American Psychiatric Nurses ticipants expressed great pride in them in all behavioral health care Association (APNA) annual meeting their ability to promote staff safety settings. We also now have a plat- in Toronto, Canada, and a similar while successfully reducing seclu- form on which we can stand both interactive session at the 2000 pro- sion and restraint use. Others shared individually and collectively to call gram in Alexandria, Virginia, psychi- with colleagues the impact that for and create the required adminis- atric-mental health nurses across the insufficient staffing levels was hav- trative and clinical structures and United States provided leadership for ing on their efforts to reduce seclu- processes for full implementation. It a wave of change in the manage- sion and restraint. The enthusiastic is APNA’s hope that nurses at every ment of patients at risk for or during testimonies of success and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association SAGE

Seclusion and Restraint Standards: A Platform for Creating Safety for Patients and Staff

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SAGE
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1078-3903
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1532-5725
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10.1067/mpn.2001.117530
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Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Editorial Seclusion and Restraint Standards: A Platform for Creating Safety for Patients and Staff etween the 1999 Seclusion and were all on the journey of change, sional standards, and we have an BRestraint Interactive Session at albeit, in different phases. Many par- ethical responsibility to adhere to the American Psychiatric Nurses ticipants expressed great pride in them in all behavioral health care Association (APNA) annual meeting their ability to promote staff safety settings. We also now have a plat- in Toronto, Canada, and a similar while successfully reducing seclu- form on which we can stand both interactive session at the 2000 pro- sion and restraint use. Others shared individually and collectively to call gram in Alexandria, Virginia, psychi- with colleagues the impact that for and create the required adminis- atric-mental health nurses across the insufficient staffing levels was hav- trative and clinical structures and United States provided leadership for ing on their efforts to reduce seclu- processes for full implementation. It a wave of change in the manage- sion and restraint. The enthusiastic is APNA’s hope that nurses at every ment of patients at risk for or during testimonies of success and

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Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association – SAGE

Published: Aug 1, 2001

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