Interventions used by nursing staff members with psychogeriatric patients resisting care

Although resistance to care can have a major impact on the provision of care, relatively limited research has been reported on the topic. This research examined differences in the use of interventions by nurses in different care settings to manage resistance to care with eating and dressing. A convenience sample of 50 nurses (34 working in psychiatric hospitals and 16 in nursing homes) participated in the study. Nurses in both settings reported using similar interventions for both problems. Non-nursing interventions were consistently mentioned to be more common when resistance was accompanied by physical aggression than by verbal aggression.