Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Turkish Intern Nurses Regarding Physical Restraints

Abstract

Although there are studies on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of nurses working in the fields of elderly care, rehabilitation, and psychiatry in acute care units, there are no studies investigating intern nurses and other nursing students. However, intern nurses about to begin their careers should make accurate decisions regarding the use of physical restrains if they are to ensure patient safety and to fulfill this application effectively in their professional lives.

Knowledge, Practice, and Attitude of Nursing Home Staff Toward the Use of Physical Restraint: Have They Changed Over Time?

“…It made me feel so guilty. Our findings were also consistent with those in the studies of Karagozoglu et al (2013) and Suen (1999). In fact, this question assesses their awareness of the psychological impact of physical restraint use on residents and their relatives.…”

“…2.76 (0.56) 13. Regrettably, the findings from our survey show that nursing staff's awareness of residents' rights remains low, which is similar to the previous findings (Eskandari et al, 2017;Karagozoglu et al, 2013;Suen, 1999). replied that "a physical restraint tool is a type of security vest or clothing which can prevent residents from getting hurt," and also "residents are not allowed to refuse to be placed in a restraint."…”

“…For example, a nurse in the study by Chuang and Huang (2007) said that, "The lady lying next to the patient begged me 'don't tie her please.' Like the previous studies by Suen (1999) and Karagozoglu et al (2013), our study found that more than half of the staff reported that they did not feel guilty when they applied restraints to older people. I felt I was doing something wrong."…”

Use of physical restraint: Nurses’ knowledge, attitude, intention and practice and influencing factors

“…However, most of the nurses had negative attitudes regarding important areas of physical restraint use. These findings are consistent with some other studies (Azab & Abu Negm, ; Karagozoglu et al., ; McCabe, Alvarez, McNulty, & Fitzpatrick, ). For example, more than half of nurses disagreed with the statement ‘I feel that family members have the right to refuse the use of physical restraint’.…”

“…However, nurses showed certain important misunderstandings regarding physical restraint use. These findings are consistent with other studies that revealed almost moderate level of knowledge of nurses regarding physical restraint use (Azab & Abu Negm, ; Karagozoglu, Ozden, & Yildiz, ; Suen et al., ). We found in agreement with other studies (De Jonghe et al., ; Janelli et al., ) that many nurses stated that physical restraints does not require a physician's order.…”