Use of physical restraints in the hospital setting: Implications for the nurse: Nurses must identify the reasons restraints are being used and then search for alternatives
- 30 June 1994
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Geriatric Nursing
- Vol. 15 (3) , 127-131
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0197-4572(09)90036-2
Abstract
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