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I would just like to thank all of you who have responded to this post so far! Right now in our research we are just exploring the overall topic and this has given a wonderful start. We haven't chosen exactly what to focus on for our final presentation but your comments have been incredibly helpful to get some ideas/conversations going. We welcome all information people feel like sharing about any form of restraints, any opinions, any experiences, etc. Anything you'd like to share. Thank you all very much for your help so far :)

Hello! I'm doing a group presentation in nursing school and we've been assigned the topic of "The Use of Patient Restraints". We're just beginning our research (we were assigned the topic today) and our presentation is on December 3 - so we have a good amount of time. We thought it'd be interesting to get the perspective of the experienced nurses of allnurses.com! Anything you can share with us would be so helpful - from your own experiences, your own hospital's policy regarding restraints, your opinion about them, things you've observed, etc. We've only done one clinical rotation so far and none of us have any personal experience with restraints so we'd really like to hear some first-hand accounts. Thank you in advance!