Rehabilitation Nursing
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Postadmission dehydration: risk factors, indicators, and outcomes.

30 Aug 2009 Detecting and treating dehydration in hospitalized patients is critical because of the adverse outcomes associated with this condition. Using a case-control design, this study estimated the incidence, risk factors, and outcomes of dehydration in ... Read more...

Stroke caregivers share ABCs of caring.

30 Aug 2009 New stroke caregivers (N = 36) participated in a Web-based intervention that provided support and education and included exchanging e-mail messages in a discussion group. A male spousal caregiver posted a poem in his final message at the end of 1 ... Read more...

Medication safety series: take charge!

30 Aug 2009 Nurses have read the statistics on the numbers of prescription medications seniors take each day and the pitfalls and diverse problems that occur as a result. Various scenarios contribute to this problem: multiple healthcare providers prescribe ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Rehabilitation Nursing'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Postadmission dehydration: risk factors, indicators, and outcomes. 30 Aug 2009
• Stroke caregivers share ABCs of caring. 30 Aug 2009
• Medication safety series: take charge! 30 Aug 2009
• APN knowledge, self-efficacy, and practices in providing women's healthcare services to women with disabilities. 30 Aug 2009
• Expanding the scope of staff education: brain injury to polytrauma. 30 Aug 2009
• Challenges of diffuse axonal injury diagnosis. 30 Aug 2009
• Reversing patient inactivity and isolation. 30 Aug 2009
• [Collaboration between science and practice: experiences of conducting a nursing intervention study] 30 Aug 2009
• [Aspects of introduction of kinesthetics in organizations: "maintaining movement"] 30 Aug 2009
• Improving outcomes for stroke patients. 30 Jul 2009
• [Topics from rehabilitation nursing--a new job division in the clinic: nurses as "rehabilitation assistants"] 30 Jul 2009
• Implementation of the 6-week educational component in the Res-Care intervention: process and outcomes. 30 Jul 2009
• [REHAB despite economic crisis] 29 Jun 2009
• Different approaches to stroke care in Finland and in the UK. 29 Jun 2009
• Patients' perception of monitoring during cardiac rehabilitation: taking the message home. 29 Jun 2009
• [Catalog of therapeutic nursing in early neurologic rehabilitation: developments and contents of nursing care in rehabilitation] 29 Jun 2009
• Promoting family integrity to inspire hope in rehabilitation patients: strategies to provide evidence-based care. 29 Jun 2009
• Family caregivers are unseen patients. 29 Jun 2009
• 'Red faces' to the fore in Hamilton. 30 May 2009
• Is this the right patient? An educational initiative to improve compliance with two patient identifiers. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Rehabilitation Nursing'

Definition: The diagnosis and treatment of human responses of individuals and groups to actual or potential health problems with the characteristics of altered functional ability and altered life-style. (American Nurses Association & Association of Rehabilitation Nurses. Standards of Rehabilitation Nursing Practice, 1986, p.2)

Descriptor UI: D019145

Alternative terms: Rehabilitation Nursing; Nursing, Rehabilitation; Nursings, Rehabilitation; Rehabilitation Nursings;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.478.676.789; N02.421.533.889;

History Note: 97

Technical Notes: SPEC; SPEC qualif; DF: REHABIL NURS