toddlerdino

Couple of years back a team of people from our hospital visited in Pennsylvania to receive knowledge about reducing seclusion and restraint uses. They started a project in our facility to reduce the number of seclusion and restraint use. We have managed to reduce the number of seclusions and restraints, but we also have managed to raise the number of severe attacks on staff. I´ve read some papers about Pennsylvania reducing their secl./rest. numbers dramatically over the years. I havent´t noticed much difference in the methods of treatment comparing to ours and yet still they have managed to do this without considerable raise in violence towards staff. So I´m wondering that am I missing something or is the deal as transparent as they say? I kindly ask comments on the matter because this is causing much mixed feelings amongst the staff. I work in a goverment facility in Finland that takes care of the forensic patients and those who are too difficult to treat in other facilities (violent and dangerous).