International Journal of Nursing

Using of Limit Setting Strategies at Psychiatric Hospital: Patients and Nurses Perspectives
Saida El Sayed Hassan Ibrahim El-Azzab, Sabah Abo El Fetouh Mohamed, Mona Talat El-Nady

Abstract
Background: Limit setting strategies were used to enhance patients‟ sense of self and to make sure that the patients are mentally stable and able to control their emotion and behavior. The nurse use limit setting as tools to prevent disruptive behavior, resentment, anger, and burnout and provide quality of care for all patients. Aim:The current study was aiming to explore psychiatric patients' and nurses' perspectives about the limit setting strategies in psychiatric hospitals. Study design: A descriptive design was utilized. Setting: The study was conducted at the inpatients units of a Psychiatric Hospital at Beni-Suef Governorate, Egypt. Sample: A convenience sample of available 50 nurses and 50 psychiatric patients. Tools for Data Collection: composed of two parts: Part I: The Limit Setting Rules to Deal with Psychiatric Patient. Part II: Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics for the patient and nurse: Results: The results demonstrated that about two third of the psychiatric patients have an inadequate perspectives about limit setting strategies while 62.5% of psychiatric nurses have an adequate perspectives of limit setting strategies. There was highly positive statistical significant relation between psychiatric patients‟ perspectives and nurses‟ perspectives about limit setting strategies in a psychiatric hospital. Conclusion: It can be concluded that most of studied psychiatric patients have an inadequate perspectives about limit setting while more than two third of the studied nurses' have an adequate perspectives about the limit setting, with a highly positive statistically significant relation between psychiatric patients‟ and nurses‟ perspectives about limit setting strategies. Recommendations: It can be recommended that the patients with psychiatric disorders should have adequate explanation concerning limit setting strategies, which emphasized its therapeutic purposes and consequences are a requirement; to alter misconceptions, they obtained about limit setting.

Full Text: PDF     DOI: 10.15640/ijn.v6n1a13