Restraint and seclusion: Not many new changes, only added nuances
Patient Safety Monitor, July 1, 2008
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Editor’s note: For a related staff trainer, check out the quiz about restraint and seclusion on p. 11 of the PDF of this issue.
CMS has not changed the definition of restraint; it has merely clarified it. It has not changed the definition of seclusion at all, said Lisa Eddy, RN, CPHQ, senior consultant at The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in Marblehead, MA, at the Second Annual Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals Conference in May.
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