Providing Optimal Support/Care Planning Flashcards
When does rehab start?
Starts at the time of injury
Define rehabilitation
Restoring to the highest possible level of functioning through the use of therapy
List 5 goals of rehab
Restore function, improve abilities, learn new skills by adapting, prevent further injury or illness, prevent functional decline
Who is on the rehabilitation team?
OT, PT, SLP, Dietician,CT, Dr, nurse, family, PSW,
List 6 areas of health that are treated
Physical, mental, spiritual, ROM, social and supportive
List 5 ways of helping a patient to have dignity during rehab
Positive support, reassure them, MEDS, empathy, be an active listener
Define developmental task
Step or goal to achieve the task
What is development?
Orderly progression
What are care plans?
A map, directions, contract between CT & health care team
What is a care conference?
Used to discuss care required to be done within 3 months after admission. Health care team and family are generally present
Define HOMEOSTATIS
Balance
Name the 2 systems that make up the cardiovascular system
Circulatory and lymphatic
What does CVS stand for?
Cardio vascular system
There are 3 parts to the circulatory system. Name them
Heart, vessels, blood
What does the heart do?
Pumps blood
What are the vessels job?
Arteries carry blood away from the heart
Veins do what job?
Take deoxygenated blood to the heart
Capillaries do what job?
Stretch blood to outer limbs and surface
Describe the functions of blood
Heart pumps blood, it has oxygen O2, Red blood cells (RBC) carry O2 Binds O2 White blood cells (WBC) fighter cells ^ when sick Provides nutrients Platelets help with clotting decreased bleed out happens increased pt scabs quickly Plasma
What is plasma
The liquid part of blood
Yellowish in colour
Made in the liver
Pericardium
Fluid filled sack around the heart
Myocardium
Muscle/casing around the heart
Endocardium
Inner lining of the heart
Describe what the lymphatic system does
Helps with immunity, defence system. How cancer CA is spread
