Seclusion and restraint are traumatising experiences for people receiving services and staff delivering services.
Evidence based tools are available to support in-patient services to reduce seclusion and restraint, developed by Te Pou with support from the Ministry of Health.
Reducing and working to eliminate seclusion and restraint is highlighted as a priority action in Rising to the Challenge. Currently New Zealand has made good progress towards reducing seclusion and restraint and Te Pou will support DHBs to continue that work.
This video looks at the data collected from a New Zealand inpatient mental health unit before and after the Six Core Strategies were implemented.
This resource outlines best practice for reducing seclusion and restraint.
This action plan will support the national goal of reducing seclusion and restraint use in mental health services in New Zealand, so that people can receive services in the least restrictive settings.
This resource looks at the evidence related to seclusion reduction and staff safety.
This video looks at the experiences of staff who successfully implemented the Six Core Strategies© in a New Zealand mental health unit.
This document outlines best practices for reducing seclusion and restraint, and discusses the new draft Health and Disability Sector Standards that govern use of seclusion and restraint in New Zealand.
This evidence-informed report investigates what factors might be influencing the variation in seclusion rates between DHB mental health services and PRIMHD data.
13 December 2016
Handover | Issue 37 - December 2016 - Least restrictive practice We have been lucky enough to recently spend time amongst nurse educators at their biennial forum at the beautiful Knox College in Dunedin.25 November 2011
Waitemata District Health Board used the Six Core Strategies to successfully reduce seclusion and restraint.Choose which list to add this to, or create a new one!