WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) --Some patients' movement needs to be restricted in order to prevent them from hurting themselves or falling, or disrupting their own treatment. New research suggests, ...

Patients are less likely to be put in restraints when hospitals have more registered nurses on duty, new research has found. A study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that ...

The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients declined nearly 40 percent nationally in recent years as the federal government, states and the nursing home industry placed greater emphasis on ...

It was 2 a.m., but the intensive care unit (ICU) where I was rotating as a medical student was wide awake. In one room, a man with liver failure was moaning as his medical team attempted to insert a ...

Many hospitals compensate for a shortage of registered nurses with other staff, but researchers involved with the new study say the skill sets staff members possess appears to make a difference in how ...