Health care providers can confine or restrain mentally ill persons only in order to
1. protect the public.
2. ensure client cooperation.
3. protect the client's safety and prevent in-jury.
4. intimidate others in the client's environ-ment.
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Restraints are used to protect the client only after less restrictive measures have been at-tempted and documented.
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