It is important to take steps to decrease exposure to PM2.5, especially for those with cardiovascular comorbidities such as diabetes and those with previous stroke events. This is important information for nurses to understand and share with their patients as a risk reduction strategy.Mary Eileen ...
yet it has not received sufficient research attention. The results of one integrative review only confirmed the potential and feasibility of education/training for all stroke healthcare professionals, including doctors, neurologists, physiotherapists, paramedics, nurses, and dispatchers [20]. Nurses play...
In an effort to increase access to quality stroke information, two health care systems and a physician-based community organization in a predominately rural area of Northeastern Pennsylvania established a collaborative partnership. The project included the design of a blended educational program to meet...
Stroke Care Unit: An organized in-hospital facility that is entirely devoted to the care of stroke patients. The stroke care unit team consisted of neurologists, internists, medical residents, medical practitioners, medical interns, physiotherapists, and unit nurses. Ethics approval and consent to p...
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The purpose of this article is to give nurses more information about PBA so they can share this with patients and families/significant others and encourage them to seek help if they experience these symptoms once discharged. It is hoped that increased knowledge about this condition will lead to ...
Reliability and validity of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale for neuroscience nurses. Stroke. 2014;45(3):e32–4. Article PubMed Google Scholar Mahoney FI, Barthel DW. Functional evaluation: the Barthel Index: a simple index of independence useful in scoring improvement in the ...
Additional Information How to Cite Andersson, Å. and Hansebo, G. (2009), Elderly peoples’ experience of nursing care after a stroke: from a gender perspective. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 65: 2038–2045. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2009.05060.x Author Information 1 Åsa Andersson RN, ...
However, busy clinicians are constantly bombarded with new knowledge for an infinite number of medical conditions. It becomes a challenge for them to tease out the important information that will help guide them through the care of the patient they have right before them. This handbook was thus ...
In addition, this dose-response relationship was highly consistent for exposure types, such as time and quantity of exposure, and stroke types. This study has some limitations. All available national mortality surveys or registry of China do not refer to information on physical examination such as...