Restrictive Practices and Defensive Nursing in Mental Health Care

Task: Restrictive practices and defensive
nursing

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Discussing restrictive and defensive practices in mental health and adverse impact of it on
staff and clients............................................................................................................................3
Management strategies which can be used alternatively for restriction of violence and
aggression in inpatient psychiatric settings..................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Restrictive practices means restricting the patient's activity and taking control all over so that if
there is any uncertain or dangerous situation is their then attendant have all the control over it.
Defensive nursing is been used in mental health care from long time duration. These have an
adverse impact of these measure on clients and staff. As everyone knows that mental nursing is
a skilled job to do. In this report going to discuss the restrictive and defensive practises in
mental health and about the management strategies which could be used alternatively for
circumstances of violence and aggression in inpatient psychiatric (White and et.al., 2019).
MAIN BODY
Discussing restrictive and defensive practices in mental health and adverse impact of it on staff
and clients
Mental health care is the place where all the skilled people can work as that job needs skills to
work, highly trained staff who support the patients and help them to recover fast with as needed
therapeutic intervention. In this section national data for the certain places of items which are
restricted to use in the health care as (if patient is in the room then that area should be restricted
to enter freely and freedom of moving here and there is restricted physically and mechanical).
The guidance of the health care, that analyse effect that study refereed to the function of the
health care written documents, which also include the health care guidelines, rules written by
them to follow and other referred report that shows the practices of treatment mental health that
health care provides and coercion measures (Muir‐Cochrane, 2018).