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Physical restraints are used to prevent from giving harm themselves and to perform medical care and treatment options in intensive care units. This study has been designed for observing knowledge, manner, and practice level of pediatric intensive care nurses and for examining the factors that affect this practice. Scale of Suen has been used for this study. When the level of the knowledge was analyzed for all nurses, the level of knowledge has been higher for male nurses than that of the females. On the contrary, there was no difference between attitude and behaviours of male and female nurses. Among all nurses, 76.2% of them do not feel guilty because of the usage of physical restraints. In the assessment of behavior, we have found that 33% of the nurses use the physical restraints as independent nursing facilities. The level of knowledge and maintaining positive attitude on usage of physical restraints are at intermediate levels, whereas our nurses act more positive. Nowadays, since patient rights have more effective than the past, we must study in this field in order to protect nurses and their patients

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