A code response team for agitated patients was modeled on response teams for other acute conditions such as stroke. A team-based approach to responding to agitated patients in the Emergency Department ...

“Only for therapeutic purposes, or as a means of maintaining a safe environment for learning, to the extent necessary to preserve the safety of students and others.” “Only when the student’s behavior ...

(WSIL) -- Governor JB Pritzker Friday signed House Bill 219 into law, seeking to end the use of physical restraints to discipline students in public schools. The legislation aims to eliminate solitary ...

After receiving and reviewing questions and concerns from stakeholders regarding the practical implications of its emergency rules on the use of time out and physical restraint, the Illinois State ...

In April 2015, Justin Sangiuliano, a seventeen-year-old diagnosed with Autism, was physically restrained at his group home in Oshawa, Canada. To control an aggressive outburst, two staff members ...

We’ve probably all seen TV shows or movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (starring Jack Nicholson), where an individual with a mental illness is placed in a straitjacket in a psychiatric ...

Chicago Public Schools has repeatedly violated state law over the use of physical restraints of students, “overwhelmingly failed” to train its staff properly and continued the practice despite ...

JCPS and physical restraints Concerns over JCPS' use of physical restraint are not new. It was the district's massive underreporting of restraints — discovered by a 2016 Courier Journal review — that ...