Rehabilitation Nursing back issues from September 2006:
Caring Versus Curing
Sep 01, 2006; ... For quite some time now, palliative care has been an important cornerstone of nursing practice. As a concept, it has evolved and is now envisioned as a gold standard for patients with progressive life-threatening illnesses, but it is also an essential complementary approach to aggressive, ...
Research Insights
Sep 01, 2006; ... Rehabilitation NURSING From the Editor: Rehabilitation Nursing is introducing a new intermittent feature, Research Insights. The purpose is to participate in the education process of readers who are less acquainted with essential elements of the research process. Every day nurses are ...
Managing Problem Behaviors Associated with Dementia
Sep 01, 2006; ... The older adult with dementia who exhibits problem behaviors is likely to be experiencing physical or psychological distress. Both can negatively affect the health, rehabilitation, and quality of life for the older adult. Managing problem behaviors can challenge the skills of the most ...
Fibromyalgia Syndrome: The Beneficial Effects of Exercise
Sep 01, 2006; ... This article highlights positive outcomes for a convenience sample of six women (49-64 years of age) with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) who participated in an exercise program over 5 years. This group showed improvement with various FMS symptoms, fitness, and psychosocial factors early in the ...
Caregiver Strain and Caregiver Burden of Primary Caregivers of Stroke Survivors with and Without Aphasia
Sep 01, 2006; ... Little is known about how the burden and strain of caring for stroke patients with or without aphasia affects primary caregivers. This article (a) critically examines the literature on the burden and strain of care experienced by caregivers of stroke patients and (b) examines the relationship ...
Fatigue After Stroke: Relationship to Mobility, Fitness, Ambulatory Activity, Social Support, and Falls Efficacy
Sep 01, 2006; ... Fatigue is common and persistent in stroke survivors, yet it is not known how mobility deficits, fitness, or other factors, such as social support, relate to fatigue severity, or whether subjective fatigue contributes to reduced ambulatory activity. The severity of fatigue in a sample of 53 ...
Cough Assist Strategy for Pulmonary Toileting in Ventilator-Dependent Spinal Cord Injured Patients
Sep 01, 2006; ... The limited innervation of muscles supporting pulmonary functioning in spinal cord injured (SCI) patients indicates that these individuals are at a particularly high risk for atelectasis and other sequelae of ventilator dependency. As an alternative strategy to endotracheal suctioning for ...
Writing with a Collaborative Team
Sep 01, 2006; ... KEY WORDS interprofessional relations research activities writing As the science of rehabilitation moves forward, the need to actively participate on a collaborative research team increases. Rehabilitation involves many different disciplines-for example, nursing, ...