The use of physical restraints in acute mental health hospitals has become a norm among nurses to control the aggressions of mentally ill patients despite many injuries and deaths reported consequential to physical restraints applications. Grounded in Bandura's theory of social learning, the purpose of this experimental study was to determine the impact of a nurse instructive educational program on physical restraints reduction. The research questions aimed to determine whether changes occurred in nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and practice of physical restraints as a result of the...