Physical Restraint In Nursing Care

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My innovation’s function is to delay patients at nursing homes from falling out of bed to allow a greater amount of time for medical personnel to provide assistance. There are many patients at nursing homes suffering conditions, a common example being dementia, that cause them to be disoriented upon waking up. This often causes them to fall out of bed and injure themselves, and although there are bed alarms in place that alert personnel if they try to leave the bed, there is usually not enough time to prevent the incident. A person could suggest physical restraint, but unfortunately due to Medicaid and Medicare policy, physical restraint is not tolerated in the environment of nursing homes. Physical restraint, by Medicaid and Medicare definition,