13. What are your short-term goals for Joe?
(Be skilled, sophisticated, and functional)
Everybody should add at least one good short-term or long-term goal
1. Patient will ambulate 100 feet on hardwood floors without stopping with the use of a front-wheel walker to safely ambulate around his home in one week. (Marleigh)
2. Patient will be able to begin a regular schedule for urination within 1 week to improve bladder control. (Amber)
3. Patient will increase lower limb flexibility within 1 week (Kelly)
4. Patient will demonstrate balance based exercise prorgam in order to safely ambulate around his home within 1-2weeks. (Megan)
5. Patient will be able to demonstrate good skin care of the LE to check for skin breakdown within 1-2 weeks. (Sara)
6. Patient will demonstrate improvement in balance within 1-2 weeks by scoring within 41-56 points when assessed using the Berg Balance Scale so that patient will reduce risk of falling. (Mandy)
For everybody above, and everybody to come, add a functional component to your goal. The patient will (be able to ambulate, have increase ROM, etc.) so that he can ………..
7. Patient will be able to recall 2 out of 3 items 5 minutes after the memory test without cues to increase patient memory and ability to function at his job. (Britt)
8. (Since Joe has said that he would like to stop smoking altogether,) the patient will complete smoking cessation counseling and make a plan to quit smoking within 1 week. (Steph)
9. Patient will demonstrate appropriate use of single point cane before leaving session. (Erin)
10. Joe will be able to recall and count down by 7 from 100 to 51 in 2 weeks. (Betsy)
Adding on to Kelly's…Pt will increase flexibility of the lower extremities so he will have a more efficient gate pattern and decrease fall risk. (Denise)
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