Advice for nurses on the law regarding practices that limit patients’ activities, including when they may unintentionally infringe on human rights

Nurses could be unwittingly breaching patients’ human rights by imposing rules on them in pressured healthcare settings, experts suggest. A lack of training on restrictive practices and interventions, which are commonly used in healthcare settings, alongside shortcuts taken to mitigate poor staffing numbers, means nurses may not realise the legal implications of routines and rules established in patient care, according to experts and campaigners.