Therapeutic Activities - Actions of Nursing:
- Collaborated with occupational therapists, physical therapists or recreation therapists, to plan and monitor program activities, in a proper way.
- Determine the patient's commitment to increase the frequency or range of activities.
- Help to explore the personal meaning of the usual activities.
- Helps to choose activities consistent with the physical, psychological and social.
- Helps focus on what patients can do rather than focusing on its shortcomings.
- Helps to identify and obtain resources needed for the desired activity
- Helps to get transportation, in a proper way.
- Help the patient to identify a preferred activity.
- Help to identify meaningful activities.
- Help the patient to make a schedule for specified periods in diversional activities into daily routines.
- Help the patient / family to identify deficiencies in the level of activity
- Instruct patient / family to maintain health and function in accordance with the role of physical activity, social, spiritual and cognitive.
- Instruct patient / family how to show the desired activity or suggested
- Help the patient / family to adapt the environment to accommodate the desired activity.
- Provide activities to improve the field of attention in consultation with occupational therapists
- Facilitate the change of activity when the patient has limited time, energy or movement.
- Referring to the community center or program activities
- Assist with regular physical activity (eg ambulation, transfer, movement and personal care), as needed.
- Provide the gross motor activity for patients with hyperactive
- Create a safe environment for the movement of large muscles, as indicated
- Provide motor activity to relieve muscle tension.
- Provide a group game that is not competitive, structured and active.
- Support involvement in recreational and diversional activities that aim to reduce anxiety: the group singing, voley, tennis, walking, swimming, simple tasks and simple, the game is simple; routine tasks, housekeeping, dress up, puzzles and cards.
- Provide positive reinforcement for those who actively participate
- Help the patient to develop self-motivation and reinforcement
- Monitor response to emotional, physical, social and spiritual activities of the
- Help the patient / family to monitor their own progress toward goals to be achieved.