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| chronic illness | An irreversible presence, accumulation, or latency of disease states or impairments that involve the total human environment for supportive care, function, and prevention of further disability. |
| Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) | A not-for-profit, private, international standards-setting and accreditation body to promote and advocate delivery of quality rehabilitation. |
| comprehensive rehabilitation plan | An overall individualized plan of care that is initiated within 24 hours of admission and ready for review and revision by the ream within 3 days of admission for each individual |
| disability | Any restriction or lack (resulting from an impairment) of an ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being. |
| family-centered care | Philosophy of care that recognizes the family aas the constant in the child's life and holds that systems and personnel must support, respect, encourage and enhance the strengths and competence of the family. |
| functional limitation | Any loss or ability to perform tasks and obligations of usual roles and normal daily life. |
| gerontologic rehabilitation nursing | Specialty practice that focuses on the unique requirements of elderly rehabilitation patients. |
| impairment | Any loss or abnormality of psychological, physical, or anatomic structure or function. |
| interdiscipinary rehabilitation team | Team that collaborates to identify an individual's goals and is characterized by a combination of expanded problem solving beyond discipline boundaries and discipline-specific work toward goal attainment. |
| multidisciplinary rehabilitation team | Team characterized by discipline-specific goals, clear boundaries between disciplines, and outcomes that are the sum of each discipline's efforts. |
| pediatric rehabilitation nursing | Specialty practice that focuses on the care of children with disabilities or other chronic conditions and their families. |
| posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | Psychological reaction to the experience of trauma outside the normal range of human experience. |
| spinal cord injury | An injury in which the spinal cord is compressed by fractures or displaced vertebrae, bleeding, or edema. |
| transdisciplinary rehabilitation team | Team characterized by the blurring of boundaries between discipline and by cross training and flexibility to minimize duplication of effort toward individual goal attainment. |
| traumatic brain injury | head injury classified as mild, moderate, severe, or catastrophic. |
