The Rehabilitation Nursing Team in the Home Healthcare Setting

This article discusses the initiation and development of a home care rehabilitation nursing team at a large home care agency in northern Virginia. The team had its origins in the concept of the therapy nurse, which evolved into the current rehabilitation nursing role. A team of rehabilitation nurses at the agency provides in-service programs and consultation and case management services for clients with a variety of medical diagnoses. The idea of the rehabilitation nursing team in the home care setting is a fairly new one and warrants the attention of all rehabilitation nurses who are concerned with patients' posthospital care as well as those nurses who are ready to consider moving into the home care field.