ABSTRACT
This paper focuses on a case of an intently suicidal, paraplegic patient in a critical care unit and the need for collaboration among nursing leaders to provide a safe environment through the use of wrist restraints. Ethical questions regarding patient rights, liberties, and privileges are reviewed. Legal points of negligence and intentional torts are also included in the analysis of the case.
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Aggression/psychology , Behavior Control , Ethics, Nursing , Paraplegia/psychology , Restraint, Physical/legislation & jurisprudence , Restraint, Physical/psychology , Suicide, Attempted/psychology , Beneficence , Critical Care , Female , Humans , Malpractice/legislation & jurisprudence , Paraplegia/nursing , Patient Advocacy/legislation & jurisprudence , Suicide, Attempted/legislation & jurisprudenceABSTRACT
This article presents an overview of distance mental health screening using Teleform. This technology provides nurses with the ability to have questionnaires administered in one location then processed and scored rapidly at a location some distance away by using a facsimile system and Teleform. The authors examine the process of using Teleform, cite its advantages and disadvantages, discuss its application with rural youth, and suggest implications for school personnel and health-care providers. Technology has facilitated many changes in health-care delivery and increasingly will be instrumental in creating changes. Computer technology can help nursing deliver services swiftly to larger populations.
