OBJECTIVE To gather preliminary data on the effectiveness of intensive rehabilitation after hip fracture surgery, as provided in the Transfer Unit (TU) in Leiden, The Netherlands, compared with the effectiveness of rehabilitation in a regular nursing home. Intensive rehabilitation in the TU consists of physical therapy twice daily by dedicated medical staff and aims to shorten hospital stay and...

Objective: To study and analyse application of early nursing intervention on patients with cerebral infarction in in training process of language and limb function rehabilitation. Method: 70 cases with cerebral infarction hospitalized in our hospital are selected (July 2015-July 2016) and randomly divided into 2 groups, that is, 35 cases for the research group and the control group respectively...

This pilot study examined the feasibility of implementing a comprehensive nursing rehabilitation program (CNRP) designed to promote the physical functioning of moderately frail nursing home residents post-hospitalization. The 4-week to 8-week CNRP incorporated three interventions: the Capacity Intervention (improving strength and balance), Performance Intervention (fostering daily mobility and ...

Background: After a major cardiovascular event, patients experience many problems regarding the outcome of the disease or rehabilitation including concern about return in their previous life. Recovering from a cardiac event is a complex procedure that presents psychological and physical needs that continue after discharge from hospital. The purpose of this review was to explore the role of nurs...

reinvention of its Long Term Care Accreditation Program, The Joint Commission launched the new Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Accreditation Program and option for specialty certification. The new program is designed to address the changing market conditions faced by long term care organizations, which are providing increasingly complex nursing care as well as rehabilitative and other service...

Stroke is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the world. In the United States, it was estimated that approximately 750,000 patients had a stroke annually. Denmark, with a population of 5.5 million, had about 12,500 cases of hospitalizations from stroke in 2009. Despite the patient's obvious need for complex nursing care and a common recognition of the nurse's central role in rehabilitat...

INTRODUCTION Effective post-acute multidisciplinary rehabilitation therapy improves stroke survivors' functional recovery and daily living activities. The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) places veterans needing post-acute institutional care in private community nursing homes (CNHs). These placements are made under the same rules and regulations across the VA health care system and throug...

1Department of Nursing, University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2Sina Trauma and Surgical Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Department of Health in Emergency and Disaster , School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4Department of Nursing, Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan Branch, ...