Abstract
The purpose of this study was to make clarify current issues of the education on restraint in a basic nursing program and to obtain some suggestions to the education. The subjects were 514 instructors of fundamental nursing and gerontological nursing in educational institutions (university, junior college, and diploma school). The data were collected by mail survey. Among 241 (46.9 %) respondents, 114 (47.3 %) were those who actually educated on restraint in fundamental nursing or gerontological nursing. Sixty-seven (58.8 %) responded "safety and comfort of patients" as their purpose of the instruction and 80 (70.2 %) answered "meaning and application of restraint" as what they teach in their lecture. As the most important content of the instruction, 59 (51.8 %) answered "human rights of the patients". The content of the lecture on restraint differs with educational institutions or disciplines in which the subjects were teaching. The results revealed that many Instructors were searching for effective methods for lectures, and experiencing mental conflicts when they taught the restraint. These findings suggest that the education on restraint, including its purpose, content, and measures of the instruction, is being pressed for reconstruction.
