Restraint in Residential Aged Care
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Provider Number PO342.
Details
Course Overview
This Course explores current issues surrounding the use of restraint in residential aged care settings.
Topics
- Ethical and legal issues associated with the use of restraint
- Challenging behaviours in residential aged care
- Alternatives to the use of restraint
Need
The use of various forms of restraint is still common in residential aged care facilities and its use remains controversial. There are associated risks related to the inappropriate use of restraint.
There are more beneficent alternatives, with aged care staff not always being educated on what these are, and how they may be implemented, or on what ethical and legal implications are associated with the use of restraint.
Purpose
The purpose of this Course is to support decision-making by nurses working in residential aged care settings in relation to the provision of safe, quality care and the use of restraints.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the ethical and legal issues surrounding decision-making associated with the use of restraint in residential aged care
- Examine the causes of challenging behaviours in residential aged care
- Explain strategies that can be implemented as alternatives to restraint
Target Audience
This Course is relevant to all healthcare professionals caring for older people, particularly those who work in residential aged care settings.
Disclosure
No conflict of interest exists for anyone in the position to control content for this activity. Wherever possible, generic or non-proprietary names of medications or products have been used.
Educator
Darren Wake
Peripatetic and always intellectually restless, Darren Wake has pursued varied careers in journalism, media production, academic philosophy and nursing. As a nurse, he worked in the speciality areas of critical care, community care, remote area healthcare and education. As a formally qualified academic philosopher Darren taught undergraduate units in law and ethics in healthcare, although his principle research focus revolved around logic and the philosophy of language. Darren’s media production output can be found scattered about the Ausmed website and in his long forgotten days as a word monkey, he wrote for European publications such as The Scotsman, The Great Outdoors, Country Walking and The Times. In 2014 Darren consulted to the Department of Health for the development of Consumer Directed Care policy and guidelines for remote area communities in the Northern Territory. These days he is the managing editor of a small independent publishing company based in the United Kingdom, and lives in Tasmania. In his spare time, Darren is currently studying a formal course in celestial navigation, just in case the inevitable zombie apocalypse messes with the world’s GPS satellite system. See Educator Profile
Roxanne Saltmarsh
Restraint and seclusion are behavioural management interventions that should be used as a last resort to control a behavioural emergency. Behavioural emergencies are often the result of unmet health, functional, or psychosocial needs, and you can often reduce, eliminate, or manage such emergencies by addressing the conditions that produced them. Restraints include the use of physical force, mechanical devices, or chemicals to immobilize a person. Seclusion, a type of restraint, involves confining a person in a room from which the person cannot exit freely. Restraint and seclusion are not therapeutic care procedures. In fact, restraint and seclusion can induce further physical or psychosocial trauma. In short, these procedures pose a safety risk to the emotional and physical well-being of the person and have no known long-term benefit in reducing behaviours. Great topic.
Rosemarie Mayfield
Very informative and educational
Aswathy Sebastian
excellent!!
Bee Chua
It’s a informative topic, I wish it include more information on restraint on resident who have cognitions deficits and who is bed bound or chair bound.example is placing pillows on the side of the bed to prevent a person who is bed bound from rolling off the bed constitutes a restraint.
cherrilyn Clifton
I found this course to be very exciting a new knowledge to share with my students.
Lan Shen
Great learn
Annett Bessert
Good learning opportunity
Elizabeth Rose Bellotti
Good overview
Nicole Zhang
Nice
Mochamad Rizky
Very good