Rehabilitation Nursing: A transformative perspective focused on the person, family, and community

Introduction: Rehabilitation Nursing requires a distinct and evolving body of knowledge that strengthens its scientific and professional identity. The practice of Rehabilitation Nurse Specialists must be grounded in theoretical frameworks that support critical, reflective, and individualized care, ensuring quality and intentionality in interventions. Objective: This theoretical-reflective article aims to analyze the intervention of Rehabilitation Nursing in the community, focusing on fundamental, person- and family-centered care that promotes adaptation to lived experiences.Development: The analysis is structured around three complementary theoretical references: the Fundamentals of Care Framework, the Person-Centred Nursing Framework, and the Roy Adaptation Model. The interrelation of these frameworks allows rehabilitation nurse specialists to adjust care continuously to contextual, personal, and organizational changes, fostering evidence-based, integrated, and individualized community care.The home environment is a privileged setting for person-centered Rehabilitation Nursing that enhances autonomy and well-being. Given the complexity of care and population aging, it is essential for Rehabilitation Nurse Specialists to critically reflect on their practice, anchoring interventions in theoretical frameworks to ensure differentiated, humanized, and high-quality care. This perspective reinforces the ontological identity of nursing, rooted in person and family centred care. Conclusions: Therefore, advancing Rehabilitation Nursing based on theoretical frameworks that correspond, in a comprehensive and individualized manner, to the real human responses of the population, contributing to improve quality of life, promote functional rehabilitation and independence among people receiving care.