Rehab Nursing
Rehabilitation nursing is the most appreciating profession in the field of medical. They provide, care to the patients and help them to recover fast from their medical problems. The comprehensive care is provided to the patients with an interdisciplinary, acuity in a collaborative, a broad spectrum of medical diagnoses, healthcare model.
The rehabilitation nurses provide intensive care to their patients to return from critical care in a very short period and undergo long term comprehensive treatments.
To take care of patients who need extensive medical services for their recovery is the main objective of the rehabilitation nursing profession.
Rehabilitation nursing provides medical services to the people who are suffering from various serious injuries such as work injuries, head trauma, strokes, car accidents, alcohol abuse, gunshot wound, drug, and several other trauma related disorders.
Rehabilitation nursing can be done at several places including:
- General hospitals
- Mental hospitals
- Rehabilitation centers
- Drug rehabilitation centers
- Alcohol rehabilitation places
- Senior citizen facilities
- Private homes.
Rehabilitation nursing provides variety of services according to the facility they acquire. Also they helpout their patients in the long recovery process. The staff of the rehabilitation nursing try to help their patients to overwhelm their disabilities or ailments and inspires them to develop skills that may help them in their healing process.
Bellow is the listing of nursing programs offered by various rehabilitation centers.
Rehabilitation Nursing Program
- Transfer skills
- Application of splints, pylons, and CPM machines
- Ambulation
- Bed mobility
- Dysphagia eating techniques
- Daily living activities
- Memory improvement techniques
- Safety awareness and fall prevention
- Communication with aphasic patients
- Continence training
- Behavior management
- Cognitive/linguistic treatment
- Health maintenance
- Crisis prevention and intervention
The important work of the rehabilitation staff especially the nurse is to teach the patient and his family members about their care and health maintenance. These rehabilitation nurses provide training on wounds handling, taking medication, maintaining of tracheal tube, preventing bed sores, proper nutrition and bladder as well as bowel movements.