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The laying on of hands: nursing staff talk about physical restraint
- Author:
- EDWARDS R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 3(3), 1999, pp.136-143.
'Care and responsibility', previously labelled 'Control and Restraint' is a nationally recognized approach to physical restraint. This study explores how nursing staff, who work with people with learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges services, evaluate the method. Whilst there has been considerable debate in the literature concerning physical restraint methods there is no consensus about the appropriateness of different approaches. Peculiarly, the opinions of the staff are at the periphery, or worse still, absent from the arena. In this qualitative project, this issue is addressed by using intensive, semi-structured interviews to probe the views of participants. The interviewees discussed a range of topics and identified a number of main themes.