### What you need to know Providing rehabilitation for people with complex psychosis enables them achieve and sustain a rewarding life in the community.123 This article summarises first guideline from National Institute Health Care Excellence (NICE) on mental health adults psychosis.4 It describes how identify who should be offered rehabilitation, what services provided within local service, t...

An especially dynamic area of discussion within nursing ethics is the philosophy of caring. The work on moral development by Harvard educator Carol Gilligan in her book, In a Different Voice, is pivotal in this discussion (see IV B, Cooper 1989). Jean Watson, a nurse at the University of Colorado Center for Human Caring, also has written extensively on the philosophy of caring. She states that ...

BACKGROUND Neuro-oncological population well expresses the complexity of neurological disability due to the multiple neurological deficits that affect these patients. Moreover, due to the therapeutical opportunities survival times for patients with brain tumor have increased and more of these patients require rehabilitation care. The figure of nurse in the interdisciplinary specialty of neurore...

objectives: the aim of present study was to investigate the effect of cognitive rehabilitation, a new and non-pharmacological approach to reduce memory and other cognitive deficits in alzheimer's disease. methods & materials: this study was a quasi-experimental research, in singlesubject study-with control group- and based on an a-b design. that was conducted in two groups of control and e...

Heart Failure (HF) patients often have limited exercise capacity due to dyspnoea and fatigue. Despite the availability of effective treatment, HF is associated with poor quality life (QOL), high morbidity mortality. Māori are twice as likely die four times be hospitalised for HF. failure hospitalisations cost an estimated 2% New Zealand health system. Until late 1980s, was considered unsafe HF;...

Background: Research has emphasized the value of a person-centered, interdisciplinary approach to structured goal setting in rehabilitation; yet these approaches are not consistently implemented clinical practice, limiting effect that can have on rehabilitation. The introduction new interdisciplinary, person-centered process Ireland’s national rehabilitation hospital...

Methods A prospective service improvement project. Adult patients with a length of stay greater than 5 days on LITU were included. Three outcome measures were selected for use on the LITU; Rehabilitation Complexity Scale (RCS), ICU Mobility Scale (ICUMS) and The Chelsea Critical Care Physical Assessment tool (CPAx). These outcomes were measured on day 5 of admission, start of rehabilitation and...

Green Pastures Hospital for leprosy patients in Pokhara Nepal, was established in 1957 by the International Nepal Fellowship (INF) in a decade which saw the establishment of many similar hospitals in other leprosy endemic countries. In recent years, mainly due to significant improvements in leprosy control services and the wide implementation of multiple drug therapy (MDT) for all patients, man...

The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) has responsibility for organizing groups to investigate research topics related to the Internet protocols, applications, and technology. IRTF activities are organized into Research Groups. This document describes the guidelines and procedures for formation and operation of IRTF Research Groups. It describes the relationship between IRTF participants, Rese...