A non-pharmacologic approach to decrease restraint use.

Aims: To evaluate an education intervention to decrease restraint use in patients in a Trauma Intensive Care Unit (TICU) and to evaluate nurses' perceptions regarding restraints.

Objectives: To measure restraint use pre/post-intervention and to measure nurses' perceptions of restraint use.

Methods: Pre/post-intervention design to collate incidences of delirium and restraints pre/post-intervention.