Mobility in context
Subtitle: principles of patient care skills
By: Charity Johansson, Susan A. Chinworth
Contributors: Chinworth, Susan A.
Publisher: F.A. Davis Company
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9780803615274
Subjects: Moving and Lifting Patients; Patient Positioning; Physical Therapy Modalities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Establishing the therapeutic alliance; title: The mechanics of movement; title: Special environments; title: Keeping it clean : maintaining cleanliness in the clinical environment; title: Assessing physiological status : vital signs; title: Draping for minimum exposure and maximum dignity; title: Positioning your patient for mobility; title: Transferring dependent patients; title: Maintaining capacity for mobility through range-of-motion; title: Bed mobility; title: Horizontal transfers; title: Vertical transfers; title: Seated mobility : sitting but not sitting still; title: fitting and propelling a wheelchair; title: Ambulating.