title: The 1989 CARF nursing standards: guidelines for implementation. Commission of Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.
abstract: Since its earliest days, the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) has shown its commitment to maintaining its standards to reflect the current practice of rehabilitation. At a task force convened in 1988, a group of experts in rehabilitation was charged with the revision of the standards that addressed comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation. This task force included rehabilitation nurses who could identify and address the elements of rehabilitation nursing that are essential to any comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation setting. Recognizing that there are implications for rehabilitation nursing throughout the standards, it was felt that the standards that are specific to the practice of rehabilitation nursing should be expanded to address the quality and quantity of rehabilitation nursing in the inpatient setting, as well as the integration of the specialty of rehabilitation nursing into a truly comprehensive rehabilitation program. The outcome of this endeavor is the revision of the standards for rehabilitation nursing, which can be found in the 1989 Standards Manual for Organizations Serving People with Disabilities. The actual nursing standards, found in section III A of the manual, are reprinted here with permission of CARF.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maloof
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009736:Nursing Process / Q000592:standards*; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000451:nursing* / Q000592:standards