Reducing the use of restrictive interventions by changing staff attitudes
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Reducing the use of restrictive interventions by changing staff attitudes

Jerry Reeves Nurse specialist, Clinical risk management and personal safety, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, England

The use of restraint in health and social care services has had a high profile in recent years. The goal now for these organisations is to reduce it, and use effective preventive interventions instead. Changing staff attitudes to restraint, as part of a comprehensive training programme, is important in reducing the use of restrictive interventions. This article describes an approach to implementing training programmes, and applies aspects of this to the challenge of creating changes in the attitude of staff.

Nursing Management. 24, 3, 30-37. doi: 10.7748/nm.2017.e1504

Correspondence

jerry.reeves@bch.nhs.uk

Peer review

This article has been subject to external double-blind peer review and checked for plagiarism using automated software

Conflict of interest

None declared

Received: 23 March 2016

Accepted: 10 January 2017

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