RT Book, Section
A1 Johansson, Charity
A1 Ramsey, Crystal
A1 Chinworth, Susan A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1189247724
T1 Initiating Mobility
T2 Mobility in Context: Principles of Patient Care Skills, 3e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB F. A. Davis Company
PP New York, NY
SN 9781719642866
LK fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1189247724
RD 2024/04/16
AB For  the  patient  with  limited  mobility,  the  clinician’s  choices  and  actions  play  an  especially  important  role.  Even  the  seemingly  small  aspects  of  the  clinician’s  behaviors  can  have  large  effects  on  the  patient’s  experience  and  potential  for  future  mobility  during  draping,  positioning,  assessing  vital  signs,  or  performing  a  dependent  transfer.  The  clinician’s  abilities  to  establish  rapport  with  the  patient  and  engage  the  patient  in  the  task,  to  create  an  environment  conducive  to  mobility,  and  to  establish  baselines  and  monitor  responses  to  activities  can  be  powerful  influences  on  the  patient’s  capacity  for  mobility.