The Specialty Practice Of Rehabilitation Nursing

The Specialty Practice of Rehabilitation Nursing: A Core Curriculum, 8th edition, is the essential resource for all rehabilitation nurses-novice to expert-who are instrumental in assisting clients with their recovery and transition back to the community. This eighth edition of the Core continues to serve as the best-in-class source for foundational rehabilitation nursing knowledge, which is now in an easy-to-use narrative format.Each edition of the Core Curriculum has reflected the evolving nature of rehabilitation nursing and health care; the eighth edition is no exception. Expanded to include contemporary topics like emergency preparedness, cancer in the rehabilitation setting, and pain management and related complications, this edition is a valuable resource for nurses across all post-acute care settings and roles.

This book serves as the core curriculum for the specialty practice of rehabilitation nursing.

Offers a clinically focused text designed to integrate rehabilitation into an academic curriculum, to educate nurses new to the specialty, and to aid practicing nurses preparing for certification. Incorporating competencies set forth by the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN), this resource includes key terms, learning objectives, case studies, critical thinking, personal reflection, resources, and Web links. --From publisher description.

Nurses play a key role in the rehabilitation process - maximisingthe quality of life and independence of individuals followingtrauma, disease or enduring chronic illness. Advancing Practice inRehabilitation Nursing provides an in-depth analysis of specialistpractice in rehabilitation nursing. It examines the research basisunderlying clinical practice and identifies unique attributes ofthe nursing role within the context of multidisciplinary andmulti-agency working. The first part of Advancing Practice in Rehabilitation Nursingexplores general principles of specialist rehabilitation practice,which can be applied to both community and in-patient settings. Thesecond part addresses specific issues in core areas of practiceincluding stroke, acquired brain injury, spinal injury, orthopaedicrehabilitation and management of people with long-term conditions.

Providing a solid foundation of concepts and principles, this book maintains the fundamental focus of rehabilitation nursing: holistic care of the rehabilitation client to achieve maximum potential outcomes in functional and lifestyle independence.