Realizing the Potential of Rehabilitative Care for People with Complex Health Conditions: The Time Is Now.

In today's demographic landscape, with its aging population and increasing number of individuals who are living with multiple chronic conditions and comorbidities, the healthcare system is tasked with responding to the needs of medically complex individuals. However, the pressures arising from this emerging demographic are felt not only within the acute care sector at the point of medical crisis but along the entire continuum of the healthcare system. Rehabilitative care plays a key role in that continuum by providing the process through which individuals are engaged in interventions to address their functional (both cognitive and physical) and psychosocial care goals to help them carry on with the business of living.

Effect of nursing education on positioning of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Purpose: To determine the effect of different forms of education on nurses' abilities to position neonates in a developmentally supportive way and to determine nurses' perceptions of effectiveness of educational methods to enhance their positioning abilities.

Method: In a one-group, repeated-measures, alternating-treatment design, the effectiveness of nurses' abilities to position neonates in the context of developmentally supportive care before and after different education approaches was scored using an instrument designed for this study. A self-administered survey was conducted with nurses to examine perceptions of positioning-related issues.