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Copyright © 2011 by Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Skill Checklists for Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills:
SKILL 3-2
Implementing Alternatives to the
Use of Restraints (Continued)
Comments
- Implement fall precaution interventions. Refer to Skill 3-1.
- Camouflage tube and other treatment sites with clothing,
elastic sleeves, or bandaging. - Ensure the use of glasses and hearing aids, if necessary.
- Consider relocation to a room close to the nursing station.
- Encourage daily exercise/provide exercise and activities or
relaxation techniques. - Make the environment as homelike as possible; provide
familiar objects. - Allow restless patient to walk after ensuring that environ-
ment is safe. Use a large plant or piece of furniture as a
barrier to limit wandering from designated area. - Consider the use of patient attendant or sitter.
- Remove PPE, if used. Perform hand hygiene.
ExcellentSatisfactoryNeeds Practice