WARM SPRINGS, Mont. — The Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs, the state’s only public adult psychiatric facility, is continuing to see high staff vacancies, budget deficits, and shortfalls in ...
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 ...
Black patients presenting with psychiatric disorders to hospital emergency departments (EDs) across the US have significantly higher rates of chemical restraint than their White counterparts, new ...
The new law defines corporal punishment, physical, mechanical and chemical restraint and seclusion. It bars chemical restraint from being used in school and allows the use of other types of restraint ...
Decubitus ulcers caused by physical restraints and chemical restraints both cause the injured person to become dependent on the nursing staff We see no distinction between Stage III or Stage IV ...
This submission on informed consent is based on Human Rights Watch’s research on the use of chemical restraints in aged care facilities carried out between 2018 and 2021 in Australia.[1] Chemical ...
New Mexico lawmakers are taking another pass at two measures that have stalled in previous years but that, supporters say, are critical to protecting vulnerable children and fixing the state’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 14,300 patient deaths in medical facilities and hospitals across the U.S. involved them being placed in restraint or ...
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