Nursing diagnoses used most frequently in rehabilitation nursing practice.
This article describes a study of 346 rehabilitation nurses in which the nurses identified the nursing diagnoses most frequently used in rehabilitation. The study identified patterns of diagnosis used by nurses in inpatient and community settings, found no pattern of use by educational background, and delineated etiologies used with diagnoses characteristic of rehabilitation nursing.
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