Nurses’ knowledge and practices of physical restraints in ICU
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govThe mean scores of nurses’ knowledge and practices were 61.5 (SD = 12.1) and 57.4 (SD = 9.7), respectively.
More than half of nurses had poor knowledge of PR use and incorrect practice of implementing PR (51.5% and 60.5%, respectively).
Results indicated a positive correlation between nurses’ knowledge and their use of PR.
A convenience sampling was used to recruit participants.
We examined the knowledge of PR in 301 nurses (knowledge check) and the real-time practice of PR in 81 nurses (direct observation) in ICU.
A knowledge questionnaire was used to collect data on knowledge about PR use, and data on their practice of PR were observed and documented using an observation checklist.