nursing

• Rehabilitation


  Treatment or treatments designed to facilitate the process of recovery from injury, illness, or disease to as normal a condition as possible
• Immediate goals of rehabilitation


  • Help people become independent
  • Prevent them from losing the ability to function
• Long-term goal of rehabilitation


  • Enable people to function as well as they did before the problem
  • Help patient accept self image
  • Help patient coping with disability
  • Prevention of complication, or secondary disability
• Rehabilitation team


  • Patient
  • Physician
  • Rehabilitation nurse
  • Neurophysiologist
  • Dietitians
  • Speech Therapists
  • Physical therapist
• The focus of the rehabilitation team effort

  Determines the final outcome of the process
• Physical therapist


  • Help patients gain greater mobility
  • Provide assessments, treatment and therapy programs
  • Provide training on any assistive devices
• Physician


  • Assesses patients at admission
  • Directs the patient's medical care
  • Monitoring the course of rehabilitation
• Rehabilitation nurse


  • Provide support and education
  • Provide the patient's daily medical care
  • Provide the patient with 24-hour-a-day nursing care
  • Encourage patients to do as much of their own care as possible
• Neurophysiologist


  • Address psychological needs
  • Helping patients and families adjust to changes in their life
• Speech Therapists


  Evaluate speech and language, memory, hearing and swallowing skills in order to develop a treatment plan
• Dietitians


  • Determine methods of feeding and caloric needs
  • Monitor feeding tolerance to assure patients receive adequate nutrition
• Diagnostic tests


  Tests used to detect any abnormality and aid the doctor in diagnosis
• Types of diagnostic tests

  • Laboratory diagnostic tests
  • Diagnostic procedures
• Laboratory diagnostic tests


  • Blood studies
  • Urine studies
  • Fecal studies
  • Sputum analysis
  • Semen analysis
• Aim of diagnostic tests

  • To detect any abnormality
  • To aid the doctor in diagnosis
  • To follow up the effect of care or medication
• Blood studies


  Tests performed on blood samples
• SGOT


  Serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase
• SGPT


  Serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase
• Total bilirubin


  Direct bilirubin + Indirect bilirubin
• Albumin


  Protein found in blood plasma
• Globulin


  Proteins found in blood plasma
• Alkaline phosphatase


  Enzyme found in the liver, bone, and other tissues
• Blood urea nitrogen (BUN)


  Measure of the amount of nitrogen in the blood in the form of urea
• Creatinine


  Waste product filtered by the kidneys
• Creatinine clearance


  Measure of the kidney's ability to filter creatinine from the blood
• Uric acid


  Waste product filtered by the kidneys
• Fasting blood sugar


  Blood glucose level after not eating for at least 8 hours
• Post prandial blood sugar

  Blood glucose level after eating a meal
• Random blood sugar


  Blood glucose level measured at any time, regardless of when the person last ate