Debriefing Form: Patient Debriefing Tool following Restraint/Seclusion - RNAO Appendix X

This debriefing tool provides examples of questions to ask the resident after they have been restrained or secluded.

Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. (2012). Appendix X of Promoting Safety: Alternative Approaches to the Use of Restraints. Toronto, Canada: Author.  (p. 139). 

Used with permission: Stone Institute of Psychiatry, Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL

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