英文摘要 |
The purpose of this study was to explore factors associated with behavior of physical restraint among nurses in the intensive care unit (ICU). The ICU nurses who worked at a medical center in southern Taiwan participated in the study. One hundred and ninety-two (65.31%) eligible nurses completed the questionnaire regarding their sociodemographic variables, knowledge, and attitude toward physical restraint. The frequency of physical restraint was collected from reviewing patients’ chart. A multivariate analysis was performed using multiple linear regressions by SPSS for windows 10.0 software. The regression model showed that nurses at surgical ICU, nurse with N1 clinical ladder, and non-leader or head nurses had higher frequency of using physical restraint. These variables explained 15.1% of the total variation. The nursing mangers could improve the use of physical restraint by monitoring the behavior among nurses with N1 clinical ladder or in surgical ICU. Researches about decision making of physical restraint should be further studied in the future. |