Rehabilitation Nursing: A Contemporary Approach to Practice A Contemporary Approach to Practice

Rehabilitation Nursing: A Contemporary Approach to Practice is a clinically-focused text designed to integrate rehabilitation into an academic curriculum, educate nurses new to the specialty, and aid practicing nurses preparing for certification. Incorporating competencies set forth by the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN), it includes key terms, learning objectives, case studies, critical thinking, personal reflection, resources, and web links. Evidence-based and practical, this text offers unique and expert insights from an interdisciplinary author team drawing from nursing, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, psychology, social work, nutrition, veterinary medicine, law, business, and many more. All chapters address ethics, research, and teaching and include a wide-variety of topics such as stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputation, joint replacement, neurological problems, cardio/pulmonary, chronic illness, pediatric and geriatric rehabilitation, and health policy. In addition, it explores exciting areas such as polytrauma, life care planning, and animal assisted therapy.

PartI General concepts and principles of rehabilitation nursing
Chapter2 Chronicity and disability
Chapter3 Settings for care
Chapter4 Theories and models
Chapter5 The interdisciplinary rehabilitation team
Chapter6 Nursing roles
PartII Promoting self-care in rehabilitation clients
Chapter7 Improving nutritional status and swallowing
Chapter8 Maintaining skin integrity
Chapter9 Establishing bowel and bladder patterns
Chapter10 Promoting mobility and function
Chapter11 Enhancing cognition, communication, and behavior
Chapter12 Addressing sexuality and disability
Chapter13 Educating clients and families
Chapter14 The Art of Caring: Addressing psychosocial/spiritualissues: Spirituality, coping, depression, grieving, adjustment, adaptation
PartIII Clinical rehabilitation management for persons with specific health alterations
Chapter15 Stroke
Chapter16 Brain injury
Chapter17 Spinal cord injury
Chapter18 Joint replacement
Chapter19 Amputation
Chapter20 Polytrauma
Chapter21 Cardiac and pulmonary disease
Chapter22 Neurological disorders
Chapter23 Other chronic illnesses
PartIV Issues in rehabilitation nursing
Chapter24 Cultural perspectives within rehabilitation nursing
Chapter25 Ethical and legal issues
Chapter26 Health policy, legislation, financing
PartV Unique aspects of rehabilitation nursing
Chapter27 Pediatric rehab
Chapter28 Geriatric rehab
Chapter29 Animal assisted therapy
Chapter30 Life care planning