Community Rehabilitation Interventions after Hip Fracture: Pragmatic Evidence-Based Practice Recommendations

Publication date: Available online 2 August 2019Source: International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma NursingAuthor(s): Panagiota CopanitsanouPractice development enables the practitioners to develop their knowledge and allows the application of evidence-based care for their patients. It happens within the practitioner’s own clinical practice area and enhances personal and professional growth whilst focusing on patients’ specific needs. This is important when working with patients in the rehabilitation phase following fragility hip fracture whose care should be provided by practitioners knowledgeable about the best way to approach their needs.Following the methods for a scoping review, this article aims to provide the practitioner with an overview of rehabilitation interventions, discussed in the literature, for patients following hip fracture. There is an introduction to the nature of rehabilitation and the issues raised for the patient with a hip fracture, a discussion of the existing literature, and recommendations for practice based on both that evidence and a pragmatic approach to care. Scoping reviews provide overviews of broad topic areas (Peterson et al 2016). This will give the reader the opportunity to consider how other factors, besides research evidence, can contribute to best practice and to reflect on how their own practice needs to develop. At the end of the discussion, table 1 provides an overview of pragmatic recommendations for practice based on the fi...
Source: International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing - Category: Nursing Source Type: research