Units
Comprehensive diagnosis such as organ transplant, joint replacements, amputation patients can be admitted to this unit.
What is CMR - Comprehensive Medical Rehab Unit?
The person who assesses and addresses respiratory care, educates the patient and family and helps to promote a safe discharge for patients with tracheostomies.
What is a Respiratory Therapist?
Provides care that is consistent, and supportive of the patients and families efforts to learn their own care.
What is a Caregiver role?
Facilitates appropriate nutritional intake.
Who is Registered Dietitian?
Used to keep a person from harming himself
What is Restraints?
The most common diagnoses found in the rehab setting. The deficits vary from the very mild to the severe and are directly related to the part of the brain impacted.
What is CVA - Stroke Unit?
The therapist addresses mobility issues through the use of exercise, strengthening, inhibition of abnormal reflexes and tone, positioning strategies, gait training, use of orthotics and prosthetics and facilitation of sensorimotor function.
What is Physical Therapist?
This is one of the most important roles. A basic principle for every nurse encounter is that it is a potential teaching opportunity. An opportunity to teach how to live, not just survive. It is the role of coaching to give them skills they need to solve their problems and use resources in their community.
What is an Educator role?
A team member who educates and facilitates better management of diabetes, especially stroke patients.
Who is a Diabetic Educator?
Difficulty swallowing
What is Dysphagia?
The patients display cognitive and behavioral changes which are often the most devastating to the themselves and their families. The most common result of motor vehicle accidents.
What is Brain Injury Unit?
The therapist facilitates the development of functional skills related to activities of daily living at home, work or school.
What is Occupational Therapist?
In order to do this role well, the nurse must understand the patient’s wishes enough to be an effective, true representative for the patient.
What is an Advocate role?
Follows patients and family on discharge for 30 to 90 days, ensuring they have all the equipment and resources they need and helping to prevent readmission.
Who is Patient Navigator?
Non-crisis intervention to calm a person by a trained team
What is a Code Green?
The patient's injury results in various levels of disability. The deficits include motor and sensory impairment, alterations in bowel, bladder and sexual function and those with higher injuries, alterations in autonomic nervous system functions.
What is Spinal Cord Injury Unit?
The therapist uses leisure activities to facilitate community reentry, improve cognition, addressing social skills, resocialization and work on mobility or other therapy goals as well using leisure as a stress reducing intervention.
What is Recreational Therapist?
Effective and efficient care results from the efforts of all team members working together to be creative, problem solve and promote functional gains in each patient.
What is a Collaborator role?
Focuses on coping, adapting, and facilitating a return to the community. This team member is active in assisting patients and family in addressing the impact of the disease or disability on the living arrangements, roles and finances of the family.
Who is Case Manager?
A clinical scale used to reliably measure a person's level of consciousness.
What is Glasgow Coma Scale?
An acute unit that monitor epilepsy, post op, and upgraded level of care rehab patients.
What is PCU - Progressive Care Unit?
The therapist addresses the patient’s cognition, information processing, and memory deficits along with other team members such as the neuropsychologist and occupational therapist.
Who is Speech Language Pathologist?
The rehab nurse has responsibility for the patient around the clock. Practicing skills repeatedly throughout the day, in a coordinated and consistent manner, will help patients acquire effective problem solving skills and become experts in their own care.
What is a Coordinator role?
Specializes in the treatment of cognitive disorders associated with brain injury or disease. They can be very helpful in identifying cognitive process impairments and in advising the team and significant others regarding interventions and coping strategies.
Who is a neuropsychologist?
A scale that describes a Brain Injured Person’s level of activity.
What is Rancho Los Amigos scale?