A code response team for agitated patients was modeled on response teams for other acute conditions such as stroke. A team-based approach to responding to agitated patients in the Emergency Department ...

After learning of alleged student harm that had occurred at schools during seclusion and prone (aka face down) restraints as a form of punishment, on May 30 Illinois lawmakers voted unanimously to ...

(WSIL) -- Governor JB Pritzker Friday signed House Bill 219 into law, seeking to end the use of physical restraints to discipline students in public schools. The legislation aims to eliminate solitary ...

The Keeping All Students Safe Act aims to establish a consistent national framework to address harmful practices.

Physical restraints in emergency departments (EDs) are used to keep staff and patients safe, but may lead to adverse physical consequences, such as aspiration, physical trauma and phycological harm of ...

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — You expect the unexpected when you adopt eight kids. "Loud, active, messy, sticky, stinky," Ray and Lori Carter said describing their family dynamic. But the Carters said they ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Care team “huddles” led to a reduction in physical restraint events at a children’s hospital. Restraint events ...

With some extra support from their managers, staff at long-term care communities can reduce the use of physical restraints on residents without raising the risk for falls, according to a new study.

Chicago Public Schools has repeatedly violated state law over the use of physical restraints of students, “overwhelmingly failed” to train its staff properly and continued the practice despite ...

One of the more devastating legal cases Steve Levin has handled involved a nursing home resident who suffocated to death after becoming trapped between a bedrail and their mattress. Levin, a personal ...

(WSIL) -- Governor JB Pritzker Friday signed House Bill 219 into law, seeking to end the use of physical restraints to discipline students in public schools. The legislation aims to eliminate solitary ...