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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLES |
Evaluation Of Knowledge On Physical Restraint Of Intensive Care Nurses
Gülendam HAKVERDİOĞLU,a Ayten DEMİR,b M. Filiz ULUSOYb
aHemşirelik Esasları AD, Ege Üniversitesi Hemşirelik Yüksek Okulu, İZMİR
bHemşirelik Esasları AD, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Hemşirelik Yüksek Okulu, ANKARA
Objective: This research was carried out to investigate the knowledge on physical restraint of intensive care nurses.
Material and Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out with 116 intensive care nurses, who worked in adult intensive care units of five hospitals in a mega city. Whole population was studied without any sampling with a response rate of 96.6%. Research data were collected through a questionnaire with 2 sections and 26 questions during January 19-February 26, 2002. Frequencies were computed and tested by chi-square test.
Results: Participants reported that physical restraint could be applied in order to stop patients take off catheters, drains, and connections of medical equipment connected to their bodies (45.4%). Nurses told that they had knowledge on wrist (46.6%), ankle (39.8%), and whole body (5%) restraint applications and 71.9% indicated that calming down patients before physical restraint was necessary. They also added that the right to decide about physical restraint belonged to physicians (12.2%) or patient and family (7.6%).
Only 35.8% of participating nurses told that physical restraint applied regions and patients needed to be observed every 2 hours and demands of patients had to be met. In addition, the rate of giving the correct answer of “a patient should be observed every 2 hours” was higher among nurses who worked longer as a nurse than those who worked shorter (p= 0.004). Only 3.4% of participants reported that physical restraint could lead to suffocation and death.
Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that in-service training about physical restraint should be organized for nurses. Further research documenting and inquiring the use of physical restraint is required in the near future.Keywords: Nurses, nursing care, restraint, physical, intensive careTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Sci 2006, 26:634-641
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