Being Safe

Hello all!

Just wanted to voice something that is quite challenging for me in my neuro prac at the moment. This is the issue of being "too safe" with the patients. I am having a hard time with this as it has been grilled in to us time and time again that if we are unsafe with our patients that we FAIL! SO now that I am being extra cautious with them, ensuring that I am VERY close to them and ready to catch them when need be (especially with the patients who have poor balance- which is most of them) I am struggling to (and getting feedback) to step back and let them find their own center of gravity. I definitely understand that these patients do need to feel this and need to re-establish their equilibrium responses, but there is a fine line, at the moment for me as a student, in "letting them go" and "letting them fall". I am sure this is something that will come easier to me as I get experience but I am finding it very challenging to "let go" of it.

Nicole