Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes
- Work in interdisciplinary health care team caring for a person requiring rehabilitation
- Apply the specialised knowledge and clinical skills necessary to provide nursing care for the person with physical disability and chronic illness
- Provide nursing care that supports the interdisciplinary health care team to achieve cost effective health care outcomes
- Work effectively in the rehabilitation care team to foster positive group dynamics with other health care professionals
- Contribute to long-term management and planning for the person requiring rehabilitative care to maintain their optimum function and lifestyle
- Identify opportunities for the person to self-manage own rehabilitative care needs
- Contribute to a person’s rehabilitation
- Contribute to a safe and therapeutic environment and support activities that promote the person’s return of function
- Apply knowledge of the various manifestations of the person’s areas of dysfunction and the associated pathophysiology of each clinical manifestation
- Use critical thinking and problem-solving approaches to propose actions and implement nursing interventions to reflect changes in the person’s level of dysfunction, in consultation with registered nurse
- Discuss with the person, family or carer the psychosocial impact of the person’s dysfunction on daily living activities
- Communicate effectively with person, family or carer and interdisciplinary health team members
- Identify and apply strategies to prevent complications or chronic illness in consultation with the registered nurse
- Clarify the care needs of the person with a dysfunction across the phases of care required
- Promote improvement of nursing care and advancement of rehabilitation nursing
- Critically review the care plan and modify according to the person’s progress toward planned outcomes in consultation and collaboration with registered nurse
- Monitor and evaluate own nursing care provided to the person to assist with organisation continuous improvement
- Evaluate nursing interventions and consider outcomes against evidence-based best practice in rehabilitation nursing care
- Seek out opportunities and participate in professional development, acquiring knowledge to guide own practice and acting as a resource for colleagues
- Contribute to a person’s rehabilitation
- Contribute to a safe and therapeutic environment and support activities that promote the person’s return of function
- Apply knowledge of the various manifestations of the person’s areas of dysfunction and the associated pathophysiology of each clinical manifestation
- Use critical thinking and problem-solving approaches to propose actions and implement nursing interventions to reflect changes in the person’s level of dysfunction, in consultation with registered nurse
- Discuss with the person, family or carer the psychosocial impact of the person’s dysfunction on daily living activities
- Communicate effectively with person, family or carer and interdisciplinary health team members
- Identify and apply strategies to prevent complications or chronic illness in consultation with the registered nurse
- Clarify the care needs of the person with a dysfunction across the phases of care required