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 ...

Restrictive practices in mental health settings—such as physical restraint and seclusion—are meant to be a last resort, used only when patients pose a risk to themselves or others.

As the 2022-2023 school year draws to a close, the deadline to submit Physical Restraint, Time Out and Isolated Time Out (RTO) Plans for the 2023-2024 school year, as ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — There were 109 uses of restraint of students in Cedar Rapids schools during the 2022-23 school year, months after the district began making significant changes to limit the use of ...

MINNEAPOLIS — At the end of March, the Minneapolis Police Department updated its policy manual to ban restraint tactics. According to the Minneapolis Police Department Policy and Procedure Manual, the ...

As recommendations go, the suggestion from San Diego County’s Citizens Law Enforcement Review Board to the Sheriff’s Department was pretty minor. Change one word. In September 2002 the civilian ...

Under New York’s law and regulations, there are several well-settled guiding principles for physically interacting with students with disabilities: corporal punishment is prohibited; the use of ...