What is trauma-informed care? Safe or not?

Published Aug 3, 2009

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I'm thinking about going into psych nursing. Has anyone ever heard of something called Trauma-Informed Care? Two places that I applied to mentioned this. Does this mean that staff wouldn't be able to use different holds to restrain a violent patient? What if there was a situation where a patient is out of control and trying to assault somebody, like another patient or any of the staff or struggling to escape? Would nurses get in trouble for placing a patient in a hold on the ground? I admit I don't know much about pscyh nursing and do not have any experience in this area. I just remember that I found my nursing school psych rotation to be very interesting. Would I be safe working with something like this? My husband is very worried about this and doesn't want me to get a part-time job in psych.