The Evaluation of Integrating Physical Restraint Report and Care Record System

Physical restraint is the nursing intervention to protect patient safety in the hospital. Nurses should monitor and charting during the physical restraint period. Physical restraint is also the measurement of Taiwan clinical performance indicator. The traditional physical restraint quality measurement depends on the nurses' report. Lacking of integrating of report and nurses' care record induces the low report rate. In 2007, we developed the integrating physical restraint report and care record system to facilitate the report process in 2300-bed medical center in northern Taiwan. We evaluated the system with two methods after system implemented for one year. The results show it significantly increased the reporting rate from before (0.77%) to after (1.5%) and had no significance difference with the average reporting rate in Taiwan (P>0.05). Most nurses felt nature to satisfy on the system usefulness (81%) and preferred to use system then use paper form record (83.1%). Almost every nurse had correct cognitions on report physical restrain event when it occurred to patients. The system seemed to be successful implemented and helpful for the quality measurement management.