Objective: Identify the Rehabilitation Nursing intervention gains based on model of self-care in people with a Proximal Femur Fracture. Methodology: Descriptive and exploratory study, using Robert Yin’s qualitative case study methodology. The Elderly Core Set (ENCS) was used as data collection diagnostic tool; Fonseca’s Self Care Model (2013) an orientation for intervention. Results: There incr...

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence of undernutrition, received dietetic treatment and self-perception of nutritional status in older patients admitted to Dutch nursing home rehabilitation wards. METHODS Between December 2012-February 2014, we included 190 patients (≥65 y) admitted to seven nursing home rehabilitation wards. Nutritional status in the first week of admission was characterized ...

BACKGROUND Nurses are an integral part of the spinal cord injury (SCI) rehabilitation team and provide significant education to the patient and family about the intricacies of living with SCI, as well as help manage the care process. OBJECTIVE This is the second in a series of reports by clinical nursing leaders involved in the SCIRehab research project, a multi-center, 5-year study to record...

PURPOSE In the current health climate, the length of stay of cardiac patients in hospital has been decreasing, and this has significantly reduced the time nurses and colleagues have for providing inpatient cardiac rehabilitation (CR). The purpose of this research was to determine if inpatient CR has an influence on outpatient cardiac rehabilitation attendance for women, Māori, and older people....

OBJECTIVE To determine the extent to which sociodemographic and geographic disparities exist in the use of postacute rehabilitation care (PARC) after stroke. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of data for 2 years (2005-2006) from the State Inpatient Databases. SETTING All short-term acute-care hospitals in 4 demographically and geographically diverse states. PARTICIPANTS Individuals (age, ≥4...

INTRODUCTION Constipation is the most common gastrointestinal complaint of persons in primary, acute, or long-term care settings in the United States. However, defining constipation and documenting its incidence and prevalence is difficult because people define regularity of bowel patterns differently. Recognizing this, the Board of Trustees of the Rehabilitation Nursing Foundation (RNF) appoin...

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BACKGROUND The performance of activities of daily living (ADL) at home is important for the recovery of older individuals after hip fracture. However, 20-90% of these individuals lose ADL function and never fully recover. It is currently unknown to what extent occupational therapy (OT) with coaching based on cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) improves recovery. The same holds for sensor monit...

INTRODUCTION Stroke is a frequent and potential invalidating disease, of which recovery can be improved by rehabilitation. In The Netherlands old and frail stroke patients are rehabilitated in nursing homes. Probably, the intensity of and motivation for physiotherapy are important for successful discharge. The aim was to determine (1) therapy intensity of and motivation for physical therapy of ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinimetric properties of the Rehabilitation Complexity Scale (RCS) in a neurorehabilitation inpatient sample. DESIGN Observational cohort analysis in a tertiary specialist setting. SUBJECTS 179 consecutive patients (mean age 44.5 years (SD 15 years), males:females 110:69) with complex neurological disabilities, mainly following acquired brain injury. METHODS Rep...