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The document outlines the Interim Guidelines for Bed Rail Use in long-term care facilities, established under Public Act 437 of 2000. It provides a checklist for facility staff to evaluate and document compliance with these guidelines during surveys, focusing on resident consent, bed rail design and installation, monitoring usage, and staff training. The aim is to ensure safety and prevent adverse events related to bed rail use.

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What are the guidelines for bed rail safety?

The safety strap must always be used. Do not remove the safety strap from the bed rails or user will be at risk of entrapment. A gap between the mattress and the lowermost portion of the rail poses a risk of neck entrapment. The FDA recommended space is less than two and three eights of an inch (2-38).

What factors should you take into account when assessing the need to use bed rails?

Even stable patients in rehabilitation or mental health settings can have rapidly changing needs when physical illness intervenes. Therefore decisions about bed rails should be reviewed whenever a patients condition or wishes change, but as a minimum every 5-7 days.

What are the two forms of documentation required for the use of bed rails?

A nursing home shall provide bed rails to a resident only upon receipt of a signed consent form authorizing bed rail use and a written order from the residents attending physician that contains statements and determinations regarding medical symptoms and that specifies the circumstance under which bed rails are to be

What are the safety guidelines for bed rails?

The bed occupants care needs should always be taken into consideration in a decision to use a bed rail as well as the environment it is used in and other equipment that is or may be present.

What is the most serious risk of bedside rails?

Potential risks of bed rails may include: Strangling, suffocating, bodily injury or death when patients or part of their body are caught between rails or between the bed rails and mattress. More serious injuries from falls when patients climb over rails. Skin bruising, cuts, and scrapes.

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What are safety measures which should be followed for the use of bed rails?

the mattress fits snugly between the rails. the rail is correctly fitted, secure, regularly inspected and maintained. gaps that could cause entrapment of neck, head and chest are eliminated. staff are trained in the risks and safe use of the rails.

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