Limiting restraints results in increased safety
Accreditation Connection, July 11, 2008
As hospitals limit the use of restraints and explore various techniques to keep their patients safe, one option has been using a sitter or companion. Often used in psychiatric wards, sitters typically watch patients to make sure they do not put themselves in danger.
However, Doctors Hospital Baptist Health South Florida in Coral Gables has implemented a sitter/companion program in a new way that has not only been effective, but also positively received by patients and staff members.
“We all worked together to come up with a way to limit restraints,” says Cheryl Brown, RN, BSN, a quality improvement nurse at the hospital. “We were looking at older adults, and one of our main focuses was keeping their cognitive abilities and limiting functional decline while they were in our care.”
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