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Abstract The use of physical restraint exposes patients and staff to negative effects, including death. Therefore, teaching nursing staff to develop the improve knowledge, skills, and attitudes regarding physical restraint has become necessary. A quasi-experimental pre-post design was used to evaluate the effect of educational intervention on nurses' knowledge, attitude, intention, practice and incidence rate of physical restraint in 12 wards of a hospital using a self-reported questionnaire and a restraint order form in Malaysia. The educational intervention, which included a one-day session on minimising physical restraint use in hospital, was presented to 245 nurses. The results showed a significant increase in the mean knowledge, attitude sand practice score and a significant decrease in the mean intention score of nurses to use physical restraint after intervention. There was a statistically significant decrease in the incidence rate of physical restraint use in the wards of the hospital except geriatric-rehabilitation wards after intervention. Highlights • The knowledge, attitudes and intentions of nurses towards physical restraint use are essential factors that may contribute to this practice. • The best approach to improve knowledge and attitudes towards the use of physical restraint is through educational interventions. • Educational intervention could improve nurses' knowledge, attitude, and practice and reduce their intention to use physical restraint. • Reduction in physical restraint use indicates the effectiveness of the educational intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Undergraduate nursing students are required to acquire professional values during professional nurse education to provide safe and high quality patient care. However, there was no documentation in professional values among Indonesian undergraduate nursing students and the factors influencing its development. The purpose of this study was to determine professional values among Indonesian undergraduate nursing students and examine the relationship between students' demographic factors and professional values. A cross-sectional study using convenience sampling was applied to recruit 391 Indonesian undergraduate nursing students. The 26 items of Nurses Professional Values Scale Revision (NPVS-R) with five dimensions was employed to collect data. Descriptive and inferential statistics, independent samples t -test were applied to analyse and interpret data. The result showed that the total score of nurse professional values was high (95.80 ± 12.93). The most important professional value dimension was caring, while activism was the least important values. The NPVS-R total score had a significant association with length of professional clinical practice of the students (p <.05). Nurse educators need to consider the integration of professional values when developing nursing curriculum, in order to ensure that the students develop their own understanding of these values and their importance in practice. • Indonesian nursing students acquired high level of professional values. • Caring was perceived as the most important professional values among Indonesian nursing students. • Activism was perceived as the least important professional values among Indonesian nursing students. • Age, gender, and working experience had significant relationship with professional values. • Length of clinical practice had significant relationship with professional values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]