Restraint Standards

[JEANNE]

Hello,

I am interested to see what other hospitals are doing to meet the annual competency for restraints. At this point in time we hold annual skill labs for the nursing staff and include an aspect of restraints. My question is what are you doing to meet this requirment for the ancillary staff, such as respiratory staff, imagining and security. Any ideas would be helpful, Thanks Jeanne

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

We just took a test on restraints, and demonstrated the proper use of restraints. Prior to this we never took a written test. However, one unit had a pateint die as a result of restraints a few months ago, so we all had to be inserviced and tested.