Rehabilitation nursing in intensive care

Rehabilitative nursing during intensive care is a way of active nursing, when a nurse is trying to avoid complications and secondary changes with help of all available means. It is a part of job of all nurses no matter which branch of hospital they work at ergo even the nurses of intensive care. It is a part of complex nursing care which includes positioning, manipulation with the patient and verticalization of the patient. Another parts of rehabilitative nursing are breathing rehabilitation, self-support practice, passive and active practice. Purpose of this labour was to find out what is the attitude of nurses who work at intensive care departments to rehabilitative nursing, what is their knowledge about this topic and if they position the immobile patients correctly. In teoretical part reader can learn elementary terms related to intensive care, nursing at intensive care department, rehabilitation, rehabilitative nursing. We define what immobilitating syndrom is and what parts of rehabilitative nursing are applicable in real life. In practical part we utilize the results gathered with help of questionnaire and observation. In the first part of research we probed if nurses have positive attitude to rehabilitative nursing. Results showed that nurses have positive attitude to rehabilitative nursing. When..