Prepare a 3-4 page, double-spaced paper (cite 3-4 reliable sources) that address
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Question
Prepare a 3-4 page, double-spaced paper (cite 3-4 reliable sources) that addresses the following scenario:
Your neighbor's father has just had a stroke and is in the hospital. She has called upon you to consult with her, and gather information about alternative services they may use when he comes home to live with her. He is paralyzed on one side and must use a wheelchair. You report to her as a health care professional helping her with discharge planning. In this paper, you will detail:
• all the options available based on his condition and her ability as a single, working woman to care for him
• payment criteria and options in the continuum for her to consider such as rehabilitation, ADS, nursing facilities, assisted living, home health, etc.
Explanation / Answer
The goal of stroke rehabilitation is to help you relearn skills you lost when a stroke affected part of your brain.Stroke rehabilitation can help you regain indipendance and improve your quality of life.
During discharge teach the care taker regarding rehabilitation approach include physical excercise
1.motor skill exercise
2.Mobility training
3 Constraint induced therapy
4 Range of motion therapy
Talk with your patient that "Doing your regular task may be difficult after you had a stroke,but you can learn new ways to manage your daily activity"
Ask the care taker to give a Call 911 right away have any symptoms of stroke
Always remember 3 factors that may detoriate stroke patients prognosis that a Nurse or care taker can prevent
1.Aspiration pneumonia (to prevent high Fowler's position)
2.Fever(Due to infection like catheter associated to prevent maintain asepsis)
3.Decubitis Ulcer (to prevent change position)
These instructions must need to give ur patient care taker