The nurse on a psychiatric unit is giving an in-service about restraints to a new group of unlicensed assistive personnel. She tells them that the use of restraints has declined in recent years as a consequence of which of the following factors?
A) Studies revealing no therapeutic benefit to their use
B) Numbers of restraint-associated deaths, mostly in children and adolescents
C) Insufficient staffing to monitor clients in restraints
D) Federal legislation limiting the use of restraints to men between 18 and 45 years of age
Ans: B
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Asphyxiation, sudden cardiac events, and suffocation frequently have been the outcome for restrained clients. In addition, an alarming number of deaths have been associated with restrain and seclusion—many of them occurring in children and adolescents.
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