Maximize patient care skills. Rely on this state-of-the-art, multimedia resource to help you navigate confidently in both common and complex clinical situations. Mastering patient care skills will ground you in fundamental rehabilitation principles; help you establish a culture of patient-centered care; and teach you to foster habits of clinical problem solving and critical thinking. Youll also learn how to help your patients progress toward greater mobility and independence. Over 750 full-color photographs and illustrations make every concept crystal clear. See the techniques in action. Fifty-five full-color narrated video clips online at Davis Plus show you clinicians and patients performing key techniques described in the text.
Establishing the Bar:: An Introduction The Fundamentals of Progressive Mobility I. Moving the Bar:: Preparing Yourself for Patient-Clinician Interaction 1. Establishing the Therapeutic Alliance 2. The Mechanics of Movement 3. Special Environments II. Moving the Bar:: Initiating Mobility 4. Keeping It Clean:: Maintaining Cleanliness in the Clinical Environment 5. Assessing Physiological Status:: Vital Signs 6. Draping for Minimum Exposure and Maximum Dignity 7. Positioning Your Patient for Mobility 8. Transferring Dependent Patients:: Safe Patient Handling and Mobility III. Moving the Bar:: Engaging the Patient in Early Functional Mobility 9. Maintaining Capacity for Mobility Through Range of Motion 10. Bed Mobility 11. Manual Lateral Transfers:: Seated and Pivot 12. Vertical Transfers:: Floor to Chair and Chair to Plinth IV. Moving the Bar:: Locomotion 13. Seated Mobility:: Sitting But Not Sitting Still–Fitting and Propelling a Wheelchair 14. Navigating the Challenges of Ambulating 15. Implementing Device-Specific Gait Glossary
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