Doing away with side rails?

Side rails are only considered a restraint when all FOUR of them are up. As long as one of the rails are down, it's not a restraint.

Side rails are only considered a restraint when all FOUR of them are up. As long as one of the rails are down, it's not a restraint.

Not true in LTC, maybe in acute setting.
Most facilities have done away with side rails all together. We just did this past year when we got all new beds (we were still using the crank beds...OMGoodness...I'm in love with the electric beds)
Now most of our beds have two little hand bars up on the tops...they are called enablers.
As far as falling out of bed....LOW beds are the answer. Depending on the mattress..they go all the way down to the floor. We use fall mats on both sides of the bed too.
Very rarely do we see an injury from a fall....now they are kinds rolls to the mats.