Stroke rehabilitation team members and their responsibilities.
| Member | Responsibility |
|---|---|
| Patient and family | Characterizes objectives, assumes control over own rehabilitation program and long-term disability administration |
| Rehabilitation nurse | Creates a restorative environment, case administration, family instruction, skin and bowel/bladder care |
| Rehabilitation social worker | Appraisal and administration of family and community assets, discharge arrangements, case administration |
| Physician | Therapeutic administration of inability, oversees comorbid conditions; included less outside of serious rehabilitation settings |
| Occupational therapist | Appraisal and treatment of self-consideration aptitudes; upper extremity disability, splints, and assistive devices |
| Physical therapist | Appraisal and treatment of mobility issues; quality, adaptability, balance, continuance, coordination, help with mobility |
| Orthotics/prosthetics | Suggests, plans, manufactures, and gains individualized equipment |
| Speech and language pathologist | Appraisal and administration of communication disorders, swallowing |
| Psychologist | Appraisal and administration of cognitive, behavioral, and effective status; connects with the perceptual-motor and language status |
| Dietetics and nutrition | Appraisal and administration of the dietary state, extraordinary eating regimens, enteral and parental feeding |
| Recreation therapist | Appraisal and administration of leisure preferences, adoptions, and integration into the therapeutic plan |
| Optometrist | Appraisal and administration of low vision weaknesses and disability |