Exam 38: Rehabilitation Nursing

The nurse should tell a paraplegic that the rehabilitation experience will consist of:

What is the best way to define a handicap?

When speaking to a group of high school students, the rehabilitation nurse states that spinal cord injuries resulting in paralysis occur mainly as the result of traumatic accidents in which group of individuals?

The nurse explains that the main roles of the gerontological rehabilitation nurse are to provide rehabilitative care and what other role?

The nurse takes special care to be gentle in caring for patients with spinal cord injuries to avoid stimulating the autonomic nervous system and triggering which condition?

Which is a characteristic of the interdisciplinary approach to the rehabilitation team?

When assessing a patient with a traumatic brain injury, the nurse notes that his memory is improving. The nurse should explain to the family that what other symptom may occur with memory improvement?

The nurse who assesses for cultural influences, values cultural diversity, and incorporates cultural knowledge in practice is said to be ____________ _____________.

The nurse is caring for a victim of post-traumatic stress syndrome. The nurse identifies which techniques as examples of therapeutic communication? (Select all that apply.)

The rehabilitation nurse stresses to the family of a patient with a brain injury that difficult and painful rehabilitation will probably be required for what length of time?

The acquisition of adaptive skills and behaviors by an individual who has been disabled since birth refers to:

The nurse recognizes that the rehabilitation process involves the efforts of various disciplines. The focus of rehabilitation is to build on which area?

When caring for a patient with a disability, the rehabilitation nurse provides individual treatment to help the patient stay focused on which goals?

The nurse who is engaged in gerontological rehabilitation nursing has a dual challenge. The gerontological rehabilitation nurse must assess not only the debilitating factors of disease but also which other factor?

What is the primary difference between the rehabilitation of children and the rehabilitation of adults?

The rehabilitation nurse can use basic rehabilitation skills regardless of the origin of the disability. What intervention would be effective for a person with arthritis, a person with a brain injury, or a person with a spinal cord injury?

The rehabilitation nurse recognizes that the majority of patients with head injuries show no abnormal neurologic findings and experience no loss of consciousness. How should the nurse categorize this type of brain injury?

The nurse instructs the mother of a 5-year-old who sustained a mild brain injury that although all neurologic evaluations are normal, her child may exhibit postconcussive syndrome. What are common characteristics of this syndrome?

What should the nurse do to decrease the potential for a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in a patient who is a paraplegic from a spinal cord injury?

When changing the position of a patient with a spinal cord injury at T4, the nurse should recognize that what symptom is an indication of an episode of autonomic dysreflexia?