A comprehensive authoritative clinical reference and advanced undergraduate/graduate text for rehabilitation nursing. This book includes three major sections: general concepts in rehabilitation nursing, general concepts of care germane to rehabilitation nursing, and a section devoted to the nursing management of common disabling conditions. The final section looks at evolving rehabilitation nursing and considers research, health-care financing and international nursing. Throughout the book the main themes of rehabilitation in the community setting and culturally competent care are evident. Although adult clients are the main focus, there are separate chapters on geriatric and pediatric populations.

GENERAL CONCEPTS IN REHABILITATION NURSING: Definition and Philosophy of Rehabilitation Nursing: History and Scope Including Chronicity and Disability · Conceptual Foundations of Rehabilitation Nursing · Case Management - A Client Focused Service · The Rehabilitation Team · Health Policy and Legislation in Rehabilitation · Ethics in Rehabilitation Nursing · Community Focused Rehabilitation Nursing · Culturally Competent Rehabilitation Care · Teaching - Learning: Educative Roles in Rehabilitation Nursing · CLINICAL MANAGEMENT: Concepts of Rehabilitation Nursing Related to Patient and Family Care in Chronic and Disabling Conditions: Functional Assessment · Elimination · Immobility and Mobility · Sexuality · Self Care Family Dynamics · Family Dynamics · Psychosocial Issues for the Person with Chronic Illness or Disability · Cognition · Skin Integrity · Assistive Devices · NURSING MANAGEMENT OF SELECTED DIAGNOSTIC POPULATIONS: Nursing Management of the Patient with a CVA · Nursing Management of the Patient with Head Trauma · Nursing Management of the Patient with Spinal Cord Injury · Nursing Management of the Patient with Orthopaedic Disorders · Nursing Management of the Patient with an Amputation · Nursing Management of the Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis · Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Nursing · Rehabilitation Nursing of the HIV Client · A Holistic Approach to Burn Rehabilitation · Pediatric Rehabilitation Nursing · Geriatric Rehabilitation Nursing · REHABILITATION NURSING ISSUES OF THE 21ST CENTURY: Health Care Financing and Reimbursement · Rehabilitation Nursing in Vietnam: A Prototype for Bringing Rehabilitation Nursing to a Third World Nation · Research in Rehabilitation Nursing

By Jill B. Derstine, EdD, RN, Professor and Chair, Department of Nursing, College of Allied Health Professions, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; and Shirlee Drayton-Hargrove, PhD, RN,FNP, CS, CRRN, Assistant Professor of Nursing and Director, Family Nurse Practitioner Program, School of Nursing, Widener University, Chester, PA