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Paradigm Shift In Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Education Delivery, Tammy Young, Julie Gassaway, Christine Willis, Kimberly Queen
Paradigm Shift In Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Education Delivery, Tammy Young, Julie Gassaway, Christine Willis, Kimberly Queen
Christine Willis
Nurse educators expressed uneasiness and reluctance when rehabilitation hospital’s strategic objectives focused on increasing person centered care by promoting chronic disease self-management approaches that included peer delivery of group education classes for persons with spinal cord injury. Conventional self-care group education classes delivered by nurse educators were changed to interactive designs led by peer mentors. While peers assumed the lead in classroom education delivery, nurses continued to play important roles in program development and evaluation and in the provision of medical expertise as it was needed during classes.
After witnessing immediate and dramatic improvements in patient engagement during class, nurses …