A code response team for agitated patients was modeled on response teams for other acute conditions such as stroke. A team-based approach to responding to agitated patients in the Emergency Department ...
The appropriate use of patient restraints in health care settings can keep both patients and hospital staff safe from injury, but they are often overused and abused. It’s important to know what the ...
One of the more devastating legal cases Steve Levin has handled involved a nursing home resident who suffocated to death after becoming trapped between a bedrail and their mattress. Levin, a personal ...
We’ve probably all seen TV shows or movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (starring Jack Nicholson), where an individual with a mental illness is placed in a straitjacket in a psychiatric ...
A new study from Duke-NUS Medical School has highlighted the widespread use of physical restraints among caregivers of older adults with advanced dementia living at home, revealing a need for better ...
The U.S. Department of Education issued a publication Tuesday outlining principles for educators, parents and other stakeholders to consider when developing or refining policies to support positive ...
Chicago Public Schools has repeatedly violated state law over the use of physical restraints of students, “overwhelmingly failed” to train its staff properly and continued the practice despite ...
Over the past year, the use of physical restraint and seclusion in schools has come under increased scrutiny. While ISBE issued emergency rules at the end of last November, followed by a series of ...
JCPS and physical restraints Concerns over JCPS' use of physical restraint are not new. It was the district's massive underreporting of restraints — discovered by a 2016 Courier Journal review — that ...
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