Answer:
Option C, ensuring the safety of the patient or others
Step-by-step explanation:
The one of the main goals of healthcare workers (HCWs) is to provide effective care in a moral and ethical manner that allows the patient to maintain their dignity while they heal, recover, or receive treatment. However, the HCWs must also look out for their own safety in order to achieve this goal. Putting themselves in harm's way to help one patient compromises their well-being and their potential to care for other patients on their docket. Thus, if HCWs must restrain or seclude a patient, it is to ensure the safety of patients or others, including themselves.
Restraints are not comfortable or relaxing, nor is forced seclusion. In fact, it can be embarrassing or demoralizing for patients. No one wants to be held against their will. Further, it is not the place of HCWs to discipline or punish patients, despite ill behavior that may take place. Patients may spit, curse, etc. at the HCWs; and even then, these actions do not justify seclusion or restraints because that patient is not inherently placing anyone's safety at risk. Lastly, it is not convenient to place someone in restraints or to seclude a patient, nor is that justifiable.
Seclusion and restraints should only be used to ensure the safety of the patient or others (option C) involved in the care of the patient. It is for this reason that orders to these actions must come promptly after they are performed, and must be updated every 24 hours by the provider responsible for the patient's care.