The rehabilitation nurse must have outstanding intervention skills in areas such as ambulation, transfers, and:
a. occupational retraining for job skills c. treating contractures
b. therapeutic positioning d. pain management
B
Rehabilitation helps clients reach their optimal level of physical, mental, and psychosocial functioning. This goal is established by preventing complications, modifying the effects of the disability, and increasing the client's independence. A concern of rehabilitation is increasing the client's ability to perform the activities of daily living (ADLs). ADLs include grooming, hygiene, eating, dressing, toileting, transfers and mobility. The rehabilitation nurse must be able to assist the client to meet these goals.
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