title: How can nurses use limit setting to facilitate spinal cord patients' independence?
abstract: Learning limit setting techniques is necessary for the entire team in order to have consistent positive patient outcomes. Team building exercises will assist in supporting restructuring of acute care units' healthcare delivery. Difficult patients need to participate in their plan of care along with representatives from each discipline. Caregiver competency in psychological, physical, technical, and physiological aspects of care for the SCI patient facilitates patient independence. This is a result of our increased knowledge which teaches us that these kind of patients can be more independent and, hence more in control, than caregivers may realize. Patients will be less likely to be manipulative and abusive to the healthcare staff if they feel more in control of their care and their lives.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Fairfield University, CT, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Grossman
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008257:Machiavellianism; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D010358:Patient Participation; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*