title: Negotiating self-care in rehabilitation nursing.
abstract: The authors conducted a study to examine nurse and patient perceptions of self-care and the performance of self-care in rehabilitation settings. The grounded-theory method was used to conduct and analyze in-depth interviews of 12 nurses and 12 rehabilitation patients. Every nurse and every patient had expectations regarding who would control each aspect of the patient's self-care. When these expectations were noncongruent, negotiation usually occurred. Successful negotiation resulted in a balance of self-care, the optimal balance between nurse and patient control.
authors: D L
authors: DL
authors: Doyle
authors: P N
authors: PN
authors: Stern
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017008:Negotiating; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010358:Patient Participation; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D012648:Self Care / Q000523:psychology*