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Positive and proactive care

Reducing the need for restrictive interventions

Published: 22/06/2016
Publication code: 005459
Nurses deal with practical, ethical and moral dilemmas of restriction and restraint. This new publication, emerging from a series of RCN roadshows in 2014-15, presents the opportunity to educate nurses and nursing staff about the impact of regularly being involved in restriction/restraint and the toll this takes on their psychological wellbeing.

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