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Health and Safety / Risk Management
Restriction of liberty policy
- Introductory statement
- Possible causes and preventive measures concerning presenting behaviour which is difficult to manage
- Unacceptable practices
- Preventing movement from chairs
- Locking and containment
- Use of bedside rails (cot sides) and mechanical devices
- Use of medication
- The management of people who wander
- Residents wishing to go outside the home
- Related and relevant legislation
- Registered mental and registered mental handicap nurses
- General duties
- General Powers
- Special Powers
- References