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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168
World Nursing 2017
July 10-12, 2017
23
rd
World Nursing and Healthcare Conference
July 10-12, 2017 Berlin, Germany
Perceptions of physical restraint use on elderly people among nurses in general wards and intensive care units
Turkan Karaca, Semiha Aydin Ozkan
and
Emine Derya Ister
Adiyaman University School of Health Sciences, Turkey
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urses are primarily responsible for patient care and safety. Identification of their perceptions about restraint practices is thus
important for raising awareness on this issue. This study aimed to identify perceptions about physical restraint use among nurses
working in general wards and intensive care units (ICUs).The study was conducted in a university hospital where a sample of 121
nurses completed the Perceptions of Restraint Use Questionnaire (PRUQ) to evaluate their perceptions of the use of restraint in the
treatment of their patients. Higher values indicated that the situations described were considered an important justification for using
physical restraints.The overall mean score for the PRUQ was 4.57. Nurses identified treatment interference as the most important
reason for restraining a patient and substituting for staff care as the least important reason. In addition, there was a significant
relationship between the perception of using restraints in general wards and ICUs. It was noted that the nurses reported that using
restraints in ICUs was more common than in general wards.According to these results it became clear that the nurses need to consider
it important to plan individualized nursing care for patients who need to be restrained and to provide sufficient information to them
and their families about the safety features of the practice.
Biography
Turkan Karaca has completed his PhD at the age of 28 years from Hacettepe University and postdoctoral studies from Hacettepe University, Fundemantals of
Nursing. She has worked as an assistant proffesor in Adiyaman University, School of Nursing since 2014. She is an academic nurse in university and studies on
clinical researches. The research field is stoma care, wound care, restraints, adult patients, intensive care, general wards.
Turkan Karaca et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-049