Assignment 3 ICU

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Briefly summarize your final project to share with classmates. My concept of concern is safety of the intubated patients in intensive care units (ICU's). On all the three ICU's where I work, we are asked not to use restraints. My PICO question is stated below. The use of restraints is overused. The research data states that safety is compromised when restraints are used. Different measurement tools are being used to increase awareness of which patients are safety risk for themselves and to others. Management of the cause of the agitation, use of chemical restraints safely and evaluation of patients medication. In the doing a research search I came across that side rails also cause deaths to patients. Dementia patients try to get

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