[Confusion]

Hey all, my first time on this site

I haven't even read a single post on this site, I have time for that later.

I'm a first year male nursing student. Had to throw in that I am a male, just so you know I don't have much practice in motivating people before I began nursing.

I've been trying to do a research seminar on "resistiveness to care" . The outline part of my assignment is complete, but the next part, the oral presentation, is totally freaking me out. My project is late as it is, I lucked out on not presenting because of a freak snow storm that closed the town down. I have come across many barriers and I really need a professional view on this.

1. The first being that most articles that contain actual research information are "pay to read" and I don't have that kind of money.
2. The second being non-compliant, unmotivated, treatment-resistant are terms that often come up in my searches, but only bring me suggestions from the viewpoint of doctors and pharmacy techs.
3. I really don't know where to start on this project at all.

I need to find 2 articles of research on resistiveness to care. So far I have articles that deal exclusively with how to overcome non-compliance. They contain a snippit hear and there of experience with non compliant patients. I can't find anything on actual research done WITH non compliant patients.

I chose this topic because I have nearly given up with friends who are non compliant. Their symptoms are depression first and foremost, and I don't expect every patient that is non-comliant to be depressed and refusing to take medication or to follow through with therapy. I am actually expecting people will listen, but the thought that I may run into people that refuse to be cared for is really bugging me. I am afriad that if I don't get over this hump in my thinking now I will never get over it, and it will haunt me for the rest of my school career.

Any information you guys can give will be awesome! Links, research papers, new search terms, entire articles on oral presentations, and ways I can spark class discussion will be awesome.

For starters, I did some searches on this site for articles on motivating patients but came up with nothing.

[RosesAreBlue]

Originally Posted by Confusion

Hey all, my first time on this site

I haven't even read a single post on this site, I have time for that later.

I'm a first year male nursing student. Had to throw in that I am a male, just so you know I don't have much practice in motivating people before I began nursing.

I've been trying to do a research seminar on "resistiveness to care" . The outline part of my assignment is complete, but the next part, the oral presentation, is totally freaking me out. My project is late as it is, I lucked out on not presenting because of a freak snow storm that closed the town down. I have come across many barriers and I really need a professional view on this.

1. The first being that most articles that contain actual research information are "pay to read" and I don't have that kind of money.
2. The second being non-compliant, unmotivated, treatment-resistant are terms that often come up in my searches, but only bring me suggestions from the viewpoint of doctors and pharmacy techs.
3. I really don't know where to start on this project at all.

I need to find 2 articles of research on resistiveness to care. So far I have articles that deal exclusively with how to overcome non-compliance. They contain a snippit hear and there of experience with non compliant patients. I can't find anything on actual research done WITH non compliant patients.

I chose this topic because I have nearly given up with friends who are non compliant. Their symptoms are depression first and foremost, and I don't expect every patient that is non-comliant to be depressed and refusing to take medication or to follow through with therapy. I am actually expecting people will listen, but the thought that I may run into people that refuse to be cared for is really bugging me. I am afriad that if I don't get over this hump in my thinking now I will never get over it, and it will haunt me for the rest of my school career.

Any information you guys can give will be awesome! Links, research papers, new search terms, entire articles on oral presentations, and ways I can spark class discussion will be awesome.

For starters, I did some searches on this site for articles on motivating patients but came up with nothing.

hey dude, first of all congrats on admitting your a guy on here. A few guy nurses I know wouldn't have the balls. But yeah, non-compliant and combative patients. There's not too much difference, but still enough. Non-compliant just means to me (a CNA) that you can't dogpile them to put their clothes on them. I work in a home and believe me we have naked people wandering every night that we have to chase down and wrestle into clothes. And one woman who won't quit hollaring for a man with a big dick to come in and screw her. Things get crazy and we WANT to dogpile them, hold them while we set them in proper clothes, but with people that still have enough of their mind, we can't and it sets off the crazy ones. You just have to sweet-talk them into doing what you want them to do. If you can't get them to do it, try getting the help of someone who knows the patient better, even if they're from the kitchen. We all gotta work together with these kinds of people. NEVER BE AFRAID TO ASK FOR HELP IF YOU NEED IT!!!