Patient Education In Rehabilitation

Patient education is an important aspect of the rehabilitation process. As a science, it consists of the health care professional's development of patient education skills. Delivering information, education, and training in rehabilitation is intended to promote and optimize clinical interventions including compliance, continuity of care, and patient satisfaction. This text applies patient education skills to the clinical rehabilitation process. In a reader-friendly manner, it explores various teaching and learning theories, models of instruction, as well as communication, ethical, legal and cu

Incorporating a patient-focused perspective on communication and health care, this new title for physical and occupational therapists and students provides practical strategies for effective communication with both colleagues and patients. Written in a straightforward, easy-to-understand style, it offers a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach and an emphasis on reflective practice, making it a timely and useful resource for today's readers. Discusses strategies for communicating with both colleagues and patients Examines the evidence for the importance of effective communication in enhancing clinical effectiveness Contains reflective exercises for self-awareness of personal communication skills and difficulties Provides case studies that allow the reader to analyze a range of realistic communication problems Includes research-based evidence throughout

St. Joseph Rehabilitation Hospital, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Detailed comprehensive manual for nurses and other rehabilitation professionals to use in the education of rehabilitation patients and their families. Includes handouts and forms. 0

Table of Contents: Patient adherence as an outcome of effective patient teaching Toward a model of patient-centered teaching Enhancing patient motivation : increasing adherence Individual factors in patient teaching and patient adherence Patient teaching through the lifespan : a developmental perspective The family, patient-centered teaching, and patient adherence Cultural issues in patient teaching and patient adherence Communicating effectively in patient teaching : enhancing patient adherence Building patient partnerships : facilitating patient participation in patient-centered teaching Health literacy in patient education and patient adherence Patient teaching and complementary and alternative medicine Patient teaching and patient adherence issues for older adults Patient teaching about end-of-life issues Ethical issues in patient teaching and patient adherence Informed consent Instructional aids in patient teaching : used or abused Research and evaluation in patient teaching and patient adherence Building an effective patient education team : promoting patient-centered patient teaching.

The authoritative clinical handbook promoting excellence and best practice Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation in Practice is a comprehensive, practitioner-focused clinical handbook which provides internationally applicable evidence-based standards of good practice. Edited and written by a multidisciplinary team of experts from the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR), this book is invaluable for practitioners helping people with heart disease return to health. The text provides an overview of research findings, examines the core components of cardiac rehabilitation, and discusses how to support healthier lifestyles and reduce the risks of recurrence. Now in its second edition, this textbook has been fully revised to incorporate recent clinical evidence and align with current national and international guidelines. Increased emphasis is placed on an integrated approach to cardiac rehabilitation programmes, whilst six specified standards and six core components are presented to promote sustainable health outcomes. Describes how cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation programmes can be delivered to meet standards of good practice Covers a broad range of topics including: promoting health behaviour change to improve lifestyle risk factors, supporting psycho-social health, managing medical risk factors, and how to develop long-term health strategies Emphasises the importance of early programme commencement with assessment and reassessment of patient goals and outcomes, and gives examples of strategies to achieve these Discusses the role of programme audit and certification of meeting minimum standards of practice Looks to the future and how delivery of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation programmes internationally will need to meet common challenges Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation in Practice is an indispensable resource for all health professionals involved in cardiac rehabilitation and cardiovascular disease prevention.

The Aspen Center for Patient Education (ACPE) is dedicated to the development of low-literacy patient education materials in both English and Spanish. Health literacy represents a major challenge to health care professionals with nearly half of the U.S. population at or below the ninth grade level. More than 20% of the U.S. population cannot read materials at the fourth or fifth grade level. JCAHO Patient and Family Education Standards specify that health care professionals consider their patient's literacy, education level, and language in providing health instruction. Working with a distinguished list of counsulting editors, ACPE editors create practical, hands-on patient education materials across the complete spectrum of health care at both the third and sisth grade reading level in both English and Spanish. A comprehensive reference volume, the Stroke Rehabilitation Patient Education Manual supplies patient and practitioner information spanning the stages of stroke rehabilitation, the many risk factors, prevention of recurring strokes, and various treatments. This manual contains charts, guidelines, instructions, procedures, and other tools to aid in rehabilitation and facilitate patient compliance.

This edited collection is the first complete guide for rehabilitation professionals seeking to engage a whole-person, biopsychosocial, and mind-body medicine integrated approach to care. Drawing on the foundations of integrative medicine, Integrative Rehabilitation Practice (IRP) goes beyond the treatment of symptoms to explore multiple levels, roots, and possible contributing factors to individual's health experience. IRP acknowledges the complex inseparability of biological, behavioral, psychosocial, spiritual, and environmental influences. The book covers both the theoretical foundations of IRP and applications to practice in the fields of physical therapy, occupational therapy, yoga therapy, speech and language therapy, and many other professions. Featuring contributions from Matthew J. Taylor, Marlysa Sullivan, Andra DeVoght and other professionals, case studies, storytelling, and reflective exercises, this cross-disciplinary clinical training guide is essential reading for all rehabilitation professionals, as well as others interested in advancing whole-person care.

The most recent high-profile advocate for Americans with disabilities, actor Christopher Reeve, has highlighted for the public the economic and social costs of disability and the importance of rehabilitation. Enabling America is a major analysis of the field of rehabilitation science and engineering. The book explains how to achieve recognition for this evolving field of study, how to set priorities, and how to improve the organization and administration of the numerous federal research programs in this area. The committee introduces the "enabling-disability process" model, which enhances the concepts of disability and rehabilitation, and reviews what is known and what research priorities are emerging in the areas of: Pathology and impairment, including differences between children and adults. Functional limitationsâ€"in a person's ability to eat or walk, for example. Disability as the interaction between a person's pathologies, impairments, and functional limitations and the surrounding physical and social environments. This landmark volume will be of special interest to anyone involved in rehabilitation science and engineering: federal policymakers, rehabilitation practitioners and administrators, researchers, and advocates for persons with disabilities.