CONCEPT 5
CONCEPT OF REHABILITATION
5.0 INTRODUCTION/IIDENTIFICATION OF CONCEPT
Rehabilitation is a branch of medicine which focuses on enhancing and restoring functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities. It is the process in which client learns to give up sick role and return to former roles and function.
For people with acute illnesses, the time as an ill person is generally short and recovery is usually rapid therefore finds it easier returning to their former life-styles. People who have long term illnesses and who must make adjustments in lifestyle may find recovery more difficult. Recovery is even more difficult for people who have to relearn skills.
Usually, following a serious injury, …show more content…
An elderly person who suffered and recovered from a stroke may require to be engaged in rehabilitation to be able to dress or bathe without help. A younger person who has suffered and recovered from a heart attack may go through cardiac rehabilitation in other to return to work and normal activities. A person with a lung disease may get pulmonary rehabilitation to be able to breathe with ease and improve quality of life. (US National Library of Medicine)
5.1 SIGNIFICANCE OF CONCEPT
To restore some or all of the patient's physical, sensory, and mental capabilities that were lost due to injury, illness, or disease.
To assist the patient to compensate for deficits that cannot be reversed …show more content…
Once the patient’s condition has stabilized, the priorities shift towards increasing the patient’s control over his care. Careful planning and negotiation with the rehabilitation team and the patient’s family are required to establish long and short-term goals. The health care team establishes with the family and patient what the patient’s actual problems are , the implications of these problems and what can be expected for future functioning.
On transfer from acute setting to rehabilitation setting, the care plan is sent with the patient, so the nurses in the rehabilitation setting can quickly acquire a picture of specific problems the patient has experienced and how they were dealt with. This not only provides continuity of care and a firm basic for evaluation of that care, but also gives the patient a sense of confidence as he sees that his needs are known and are being addressed in a familiar
CONCEPT OF REHABILITATION
5.0 INTRODUCTION/IIDENTIFICATION OF CONCEPT
Rehabilitation is a branch of medicine which focuses on enhancing and restoring functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities. It is the process in which client learns to give up sick role and return to former roles and function.
For people with acute illnesses, the time as an ill person is generally short and recovery is usually rapid therefore finds it easier returning to their former life-styles. People who have long term illnesses and who must make adjustments in lifestyle may find recovery more difficult. Recovery is even more difficult for people who have to relearn skills.
Usually, following a serious injury, …show more content…
An elderly person who suffered and recovered from a stroke may require to be engaged in rehabilitation to be able to dress or bathe without help. A younger person who has suffered and recovered from a heart attack may go through cardiac rehabilitation in other to return to work and normal activities. A person with a lung disease may get pulmonary rehabilitation to be able to breathe with ease and improve quality of life. (US National Library of Medicine)
5.1 SIGNIFICANCE OF CONCEPT
To restore some or all of the patient's physical, sensory, and mental capabilities that were lost due to injury, illness, or disease.
To assist the patient to compensate for deficits that cannot be reversed …show more content…
Once the patient’s condition has stabilized, the priorities shift towards increasing the patient’s control over his care. Careful planning and negotiation with the rehabilitation team and the patient’s family are required to establish long and short-term goals. The health care team establishes with the family and patient what the patient’s actual problems are , the implications of these problems and what can be expected for future functioning.
On transfer from acute setting to rehabilitation setting, the care plan is sent with the patient, so the nurses in the rehabilitation setting can quickly acquire a picture of specific problems the patient has experienced and how they were dealt with. This not only provides continuity of care and a firm basic for evaluation of that care, but also gives the patient a sense of confidence as he sees that his needs are known and are being addressed in a familiar