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INTEGRATED NURSING CONCEPTS Part 1: Rehabilitation for the Individual and Family

   

Added on  2020-03-16

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INTEGRATED NURSING CONCEPTS 1Student’s Name-------------------------------------------------- Course Code-------------Lecturer--------------------------------------Date------------------------------------------Part 1: Rehabilitation for the individual and family 1. How is rehabilitation defined?It is a goal oriented as well as a time-limited process that is aimed at enabling a person with the disability to reach optimal mental, social and physical functioning levels, hence providing the person with the necessary tools to change the person’s life. Rehabilitation can also be defined as a healthy technique aimed at providing human functioning.2. When does a nurse’s role in rehabilitation begin?It commences at the persons first point of contact with health services, and therefore rehabilitation informs every nursing decision-making thereafter. The process requires all healthcare experts to posses, as well as acts upon awareness of how what does and does not occur today affects an individual’s desired tomorrow. 3. What is the focus of rehabilitation?Rehabilitation as a servicer or an intervention focuses on maintaining as well as restoring functioning, promoting health plus the well-being and lastly preventing and minimising disability. 4. What is valued by users of rehabilitation?Rehabilitation users value promotion of health and well-being, prevention and minimising of disability and restoring and maintenance of functioning, interactive participation with health professionals in decision making and goal setting and lastly, emotional support.5. Why would a model such as the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (WHO 2001) be useful to the provision of rehabilitation? The international classification of functioning facilitates teamwork by providing one language. The framework also highlights how functioning, as well as the disability at an individual level are created through the dynamic interaction between a person’s health condition as well as the contextual factors.6. What characterizes nursing practice that is attuned to rehabilitation?

INTEGRATED NURSING CONCEPTS 2The following characteristics of nursing practice are attuned to rehabilitation; the consoling function; where the nurse helps the patients and their families understand what has already happened to them, what is happening to them now and what may occur in the future. The conserving function; this is where the nurse in the maintenance of the normal duties of the body emphasizing on protection and physical protection. The integrative function; here the nurse helpsthe patient merge new learning and in relation to their daily activities of their daily living into their daily lives and lastly we have the interpretive function where the nurse aids the patients andtheir families to make sense of what has already happened to them, what is happening and what may happen to them in future.7. What would you need to know to do this well? For one to do these functions well one needs to know the following; First, one should be aware how to take every nurse-patient interaction as a teaching \learning opportunity and by doing so it helps in ensuring nurses assesses the patient readiness, potential and ability to be coached to self-care. Secondly, one should know how to use a rehabilitative approach which is very crucial in helping nurses focus on a patient’s ability to see the possibilities rather than concentrate on the disabilities. Thirdly, one should learn how to create a positive atmosphere and optimism for eachclient.8. What measures would you take to preserve Matthew’s function in acute care? In the acute care setting, I would actively facilitate the patient’s recovery, his rehabilitation as well as the preservation of his integrity and dignity as a person.9. Why are goals important in rehabilitation?Goals help to facilitate self-determination as well as engagement in the activities of rehabilitation. 10. How do long and short-term goals differ? Long-term goal identifies what is important to an individual and provides the reason for the intervention of healthcare experts, while short-term goals are commonly used when articulated asSMART goals to mean specific, measurable, agreed, relevant and time-limited.11. Based on your reading of the chapter identify 3 ways rehabilitation services differ from acute care. Explore cardiac rehabilitation through the following link to the Heart Foundation website https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/after-my-heart-attack/heart-attack-recovery Look through the pages on recovery and use dot points to answer the following questions: In acute care the interpretive function of the nurse is to explain to the patients and their families the nature of the patient’s injuries, the process and rationale for the various treatments while in rehabilitation the role of nurses in the interpretive function is to explain to the patients and their

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