Impact of the Restrain and Seclusion

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Impact of the Restrain and Seclusion

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RESTRAINING AND SECLUSION

Restrain and seclusion is the one of the strategy that was used in old days to treat patients. In thecurrent time period movement is running on under which it is emphasized that nurses and otherone who uses restrain and seclusion practices at the workplace must stop doing so. This isbecause it is fundamental right of every individual that same must be treated with full dignity andrespect to great extent. Usually in the mentioned practice an individual is treated badly by thedoctors or nurses or any other entity (APNA Position on the Use of Seclusion and Restraint,2017(. This lead to death of the patient or mental disturbance of same. Many times mishap eventtakes place and due to this reason one heavily affected. It can be said that restraint and seclusionis the one of the main strategy that heavily affect an individual person. There are varied sort of restraints that are observed in all nations of the world likephysical restraint and mechanical restraint. Physical restraint refers to the situation where one ispersonally restricted and relevant person cannot move freely from one place to another. Underphysical restraint one cannot move its body parts like neck, face and legs as well as hands etc.This is the normal practice in the physical restraint (Huckshorn and LeBel, 2015). There aremany advanced methods that are adopted under physical restraint. In this regard patient is hold insuch a manner due to which its arms immobilized. One is pinned against the wall. It can be saidthat under the physical restraint one is highly tortured. It must be noted that under physicalrestraint simply arms and hands are not hold for guiding someone (De Hert and et.al., 2011). Itcan be said that under physical restraint one is brutally treated. Mechanical restraint is another method that is used treat patients in the hospital. Underthis, devices or equipment’s are used to treat the patient at the workplace. Under this method anindividual is seating on chair and its legs and hands are strapped tightly. It can be said thatmechanical restraint one cannot leave its place and feel tortured. All these things heavily affectthe individual brain and sometimes lead to death of the individual (Villani and et.al., 2012). Thisis the reason due to which physical and mechanical restraints are banned in many nations of theworld.Seclusion is another approach that is used to treat the patients that are suffered from themental disease. It can be observed that it is very difficult task to treat patients that are sufferedfrom mental disease in proper manner. Thus, in order to tackle the situation patient is treatedbadly by the doctor or nurses. Due to this reason one died or become injured and mentalcondition become unbalanced. It can be said that seclusion is the one of the approach that

sometimes seems inappropriate and due to this reason some courts give verdict against the use ofrestraint and seclusion. However, there are multiple negative points of the restraint and seclusion, there are somepositive sides of these methods. It can be observed that it is not an easy task to handle the patientthat is suffered from the mental disease. This is because an individual cognitive power is weakand same cannot differentiate between right and wrong. Thus, in every situation it is veryimportant to handle the patient. It is not possible to make mental patient understand about thesituation (Steinert and et.al., 2010). Thus, it become important to restrain or seclusion the patientso that its behavior can be controlled. From this point of view it can be said that courts must notbanned these practices because there is great use of both approaches for the doctors and nurses tohandle the mental patient. There is a need to issue certain guidelines from court side in respect to use of mentionedmethods because same are effective and help nurses in handling the patients in hospital. Butexcessive use of these approaches lead to death of an individuals. It can be said that it is veryimportant and necessity to use both approaches but same must be performed in the systematicway because by doing so it can be ensured that patient is treated in systematic way and handle inproper manner (La Vonne, Zun and Gonzales, 2007). Thus, it can be said that there is hugeimportance of the above mentioned approaches for the nurses.It is very important for them to follow right approach under restraint and seclusion.Under this nurses must assume their responsibility to treat patient in the systematic way. Theymust assume that there is a dignity and self-respect of an individual and due to this reason samemust be treated as human being by the nurses. While giving treatment to the patient it must beensured that same is not heavily tortured and by giving light treatment behavior of same isimproved (Palazzolo and et.al., 2000). Nurses must ensure that they are not using restraint andseclusion for coercing any patient to do something. This is because there may be negativeconsequence of doing same thing on the patient mental brain and condition may become moresevere and probability of elimination of disease from human body can be removed (Scanlan,2010). The purpose of use of restraint and seclusion must be changed. In this regard it must beensured that both methods are used minimum number of times and must be used when it isnecessary to use them to handle the patient. Secondly, nurses must ensure that they are usingsuch kind of practices only to make certain that individual will not harm himself and others from

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