Topics About 'Patient Restrained'.

"She just cut her neck with a broken light bulb!" said the aide. I told the nurse to call a code blue but the pager system was down. So another aide ran down the hallway yelling for help from another unit. A few aides came running over. The other pat...

Hello all - I was just sitting in a meeting and the question came up about restraints and pt's on vents. One person said that all pt's in the ICU setting on a vent were to be placed into restraints, while another one said it depends on the pt's thems...

I was listening to a "news" story in passing tonight and heard that a certain celebrity is being kept in a "padded room" at the psych facility where she is. The story emphasised the "padded room" thing multiple times (for drama I'm dure) and that is ...

Hello everyone, I wanted input from some med-surg type nurses. If you have a patient that is at a VERY HIGH RISK for falls. He has fallen several times at home and he is disoriented in the hospital and has fell over the side rails of his bed once and...

I recently observed a family member turn a patient (relative, a young adult who cannot sit upright without harness/straps) face-down because of behaviors. In the prone position, he can't flail his arms and legs much. Way back when I was a CNA, I was ...

I have knowledge of a scrub nurse who feels it is perfectly fine to put in foleys while patients are in restraints but before they are anesthetized (conscious sedation). The amnesia has been hiding her deeds. But recently a patient remembered and has...