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Nursing Care

Rehabilitation nurses are essential in maximizing a TBI patient’s health and in helping them to adapt to an altered lifestyle. Nursing care focuses on such things as:

• health maintenance
• nutrition
• swallowing problems
• skin problems
• bowel and bladder incontinence
• impaired physical mobility
• impaired or limited ability for self care 
• breathing challenges
• sleep pattern disturbance
• chronic pain
• impaired cognition
• impaired verbal communication and comprehension
• sexual dysfunction