Rehabilitation Nursing: Function, Participation and Recovery

Course Purpose

3 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Rehabilitation Nursing: Function, Participation and Recovery.

Continuing Education Credit Designation

This educational activity is credited for 3 contact hours at completion of the activity.

Overview

3 contact hours nursing continuing education course: Rehabilitation Nursing: Function, Participation and Recovery.

Objectives

Upon completion of this independent study, the learner will be able to:

1. Differentiate basic ADLs from instrumental ADLs when assessing rehabilitation and community support needs.
2. Document baseline function, observed performance, reported ability, assistance, and environmental barriers separately.
3. Explain the limitations of functional assessment scores when evaluating small gains or uncertain self-report.
4. Develop patient-selected functional goals with observable tasks, agreed assistance, and interdisciplinary review.
5. Distinguish nursing surveillance and reinforcement from medical, swallowing, mobility, transfer, and device prescriptions.
6. Apply individualized pressure-risk assessment and skin surveillance across skin tones and device-exposed areas.
7. Coordinate immobility prevention with authorized mobility, tissue protection, and medical prophylaxis plans.
8. Identify multifactorial falls risks and recognize when a fall may reflect acute illness.
9. Recognize autonomic dysreflexia as a medical emergency requiring immediate escalation.
10. Explain renal protection and functional feasibility as priorities in neurogenic bladder management.
11. Support individualized bowel and bladder teaching without prescribing regimens or procedures.
12. Recognize neurological deterioration after brain injury and distinguish it from established rehabilitation deficits.
13. Use accessible communication while distinguishing aphasia from assumptions about global cognition.
14. Recognize swallowing concerns and reinforce recommendations arising from speech-language pathologist evaluation.
15. Assess spasticity, contracture risk, pump warning signs, amputation wounds, and pain within nursing scope.
16. Construct feasible transitions that address patient priorities, caregiver burden, access barriers, follow-up, and uncertainty.

Who this course is for:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, registered nurses, licensed practical or vocational nurses, and other healthcare providers in any setting who want continuing education on Rehabilitation Nursing: Function, Participation and Recovery.

Course outline

12 sections · finish in any order across devices

1. 1

   Course overview and learning objectives

2. 2

   Introduction

3. 3

   The Rehabilitation Nursing Role: Function, Participation, and Shared Goals

4. 4

   Preventing Immobility Complications: Pressure Risk, Repositioning, and Surveillance

5. 5

   Falls and Fall-Injury Prevention During Mobility Retraining

6. 6

   Spinal Cord Injury: Autonomic Dysreflexia and Lifelong Risk Management

7. 7

   Neurogenic Bladder and Bowel: Safe Programs and Dignity-Preserving Routines

8. 8

   Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury: Cognition, Behavior, Supervision, and Family Teaching

9. 9

   Dysphagia and Aphasia: Supporting Swallowing Safety and Accessible Communication

10. 10

    Spasticity, Contracture Prevention, Amputation, and Safe Community Transitions

11. 11

    Nursing Considerations

12. 12

    Conclusion

This Course Satisfies

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