The Caring-Disability Creation Process model: a new way of combining 'Care' in nursing and 'Rehabilitation' for better quality of services and patient safety.

In an effort to continuously improve the quality of the services provided to persons in rehabilitation and patient safety, this article presents a model for the development of a Caring-Disability Creation Process that combines two elements that, in the past, have often been separated: care in nursing and rehabilitation. This new model and its underlying concepts introduce to a comprehensive approach in the recognition of the added value of caring by the contribution of rehabilitation nurses making an optimal development of the individual's potential and achieving successful social participation.

[Connecting nursing and rehabilitation: can a caring-disability creation process model of practice make the difference?].

The Disability Creation Process (DCP) model governs for several years rehabilitation setting in Quebec. In a perspective of humanization of care, the philosophy of Human Caring was recently implanted as a nursing model at a centre of rehabilitation of this province. Are these two models of practice compatible? Can we construct a common integrator model? In an aim of continuous improvement of the quality of the services of the persons in rehabilitation, the present article develops Caring-DCP model which could ally two perspectives which are been often separated, cares and rehabilitation.