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Restrictive practices, psychological and physical, may breach patient rights

Pavan Amara Nurse, midwife and health journalist

Restrictions should only be used when there is immediate risk of harm – not to enable work to be done more quickly or easily. Such practices used inappropriately could infringe people’s human rights

Nurses could be unwittingly breaching patients’ human rights by imposing rules on them in pressured healthcare settings, experts suggest.

Learning Disability Practice. 26, 5, 8-10. doi: 10.7748/ldp.26.5.8.s3

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05 October 2023 / Vol 26 issue 5

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