WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) --Some patients' movement needs to be restricted in order to prevent them from hurting themselves or falling, or disrupting their own treatment. New research suggests, ...

Patients are less likely to be put in restraints when hospitals have more registered nurses on duty, new research has found. A study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that ...

The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients declined nearly 40 percent nationally in recent years as the federal government, states and the nursing home industry placed greater emphasis on ...

Spread the loveIntroduction A recent report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General has raised alarming concerns regarding the misuse of antipsychotic ...

Caring for people living with dementia has always required balancing safety and autonomy: We often want autonomy for ourselves but safety for others; and that has historically prevailed in senior ...

Many hospitals compensate for a shortage of registered nurses with other staff, but researchers involved with the new study say the skill sets staff members possess appears to make a difference in how ...