Striving to establish patient participation in rehabilitation: the challenges experienced by nursing staff when changing practice to include the patient's perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Patient participation is a complex issue and difficult to establish, but essential to successful spinal cord injury rehabilitation. The purpose of this study was to explore the challenges experienced by nursing staff when they wanted to include the patient's perspective in their rehabilitation.

Methods

Action research methodology was applied to increase knowledge, develop competences, and ultimately change practice. Over a period of two years, four nurses and four certified healthcare workers participated in identifying, testing and evaluating ways to improve patient participation. The data consist of evaluations of patient participation and recorded and transcribed dialogues from meetings and workshops. Transformed into text, data were analysed using the interpretiv

SUBMITTER: Steensgaard R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11693675 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature