Uncontrollable Behavior and Restraints Policy Analysis

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Correspondence: Rami Sami ELshalabi, RN, MSN, CNS Master Degree Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Clinical Nurse Specialist Princess Salma Faculty of Nursing Alalbayt University, P.O.BOX 130040, Mafraq, 25113, Jordan Email: r.elshalabi@yahoo.com Introduction Restraint is often used to control the behavior of people with mental conditions in a variety of settings including hospitals and psychiatric treatment facilities (Haimowitz, Urff, Huckshorn, 2006). Psychiatric settings use medical intervention as a restraint to reduce risk demonstrated by violent patients from harming themselves and others (Regan, Wilhoite, Faheem, Wright, & Hamer, 2006). Restraint is an intervention used in the treatment and management of violent behaviors in psychiatry (McCue, Urcuyo, Lilu, Tobias, & Chambers, 2004).