Section 449.74489 - Physical or chemical restraint of patients1. A facility for skilled nursing shall not use physical or chemical restraints on a patient to discipline the patient or for the convenience of members of the staff.2. Physical or chemical restraints may be used only if required to treat a patient's medical symptoms.3. As used in this section: (a) "Chemical restraints" means a psychopharmacologic drug that is not required to treat the medical symptoms of a patient, but is used to discipline a patient or for the convenience of members of the staff of a facility for skilled nursing.(b) "Physical restraints" means any manual method or physical or mechanical device, material or equipment attached or adjacent to a patient's body that cannot be removed easily by the patient and restricts the freedom of movement of the patient or normal access to the patient's body.Nev. Admin. Code § 449.74489
Added to NAC by Bd. of Health by R051-99, eff. 9-27-99