The 29-year-old male patient admitted with schizophrenia has pulled out 4 IVs in the last 12 hours. Which intervention does the nurse include in this patient’s care plan?

Assign an unlicensed assistive personnel to sit with the patient. A core principle for using physical restraints on a patient is to institute the least restrictive method possible first in all situations. Therefore, for this patient, the nurse would appropriately assign an UAP to sit with and help reorient and calm the patient to help prevent him from pulling out any further IVs or otherwise harming himself. High dose haloperidol is a powerful chemical restraint and is prohibited in many facilities. Mittens and wrist restraints are physical restraints that should be avoided unless other options are tried first and fail.

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