BACKGROUND Recovery after a stroke varies greatly between individuals and is reflected by wide variation in the use of institutional and home care services. This study sought to classify veterans according to their care trajectories in the 12 months after hospitalization for ischemic stroke. METHODS AND RESULTS The sample consisted of 3811 veterans hospitalized for ischemic stroke in Veterans...

BACKGROUND Nurses play an integral part in providing evidence-based care to patients with stroke, yet some patients receive unnecessary or even harmful care. The literature supports the use of multifaceted strategies to promote implementation of evidence-based practice; however, there is a gap in knowing which combinations of strategies are most successful. PURPOSE The purpose of this study w...

Background: The ability of nursing staff to determine stroke deglutition disorders is important in care of stroke patients. Purpose: This study aimed to increase diagnostic accuracy of stroke deglutition disorders among nursing staff in stroke care. Method: By comprehensive determination of the most accurate water volume for the diagnosis of stroke deglutition disorders using evidence-based met...

T he Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing Clinical Symposium had a successful program at the American Heart Association’s (AHA’s) 2017 Scientific Sessions. Since its inception, the goal of the symposium is to disseminate knowledge on cardiovascular and stroke care as well as provide clinical nurses and advance practice nurses with evidence-based advancements in cardiac and stroke nursing science. ...

Background Nurses often have difficulties with using interdisciplinary stroke guidelines for patients with stroke as they do not focus sufficiently on nursing. Therefore, the Stroke Nursing Guideline (SNG) was developed and implemented. The aim of this study was to determine the implementation and feasibility of the SNG in terms of changes in documentation and use of the guideline in the care o...

conclusions nursing process indicators can be used to audit nursing care. such audits can be used as quality assurance tools. results the compliance rate of nursing process indicators was 79.71 ± 0.87. mean compliance scores did not significantly differ by education level and gender. however, overall compliance scores were correlated with nurses’ age (r = 0.26, p = 0.001) and work experience (r...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The organization of poststroke care will be a major challenge in coming years. We aimed to assess hospital disposition after stroke and its associated factors in clinical practice. METHODS All cases of stroke from 2006 to 2010 were identified from the population-based Stroke Registry of Dijon, France. Demographic features, risk factors, and prestroke treatments were rec...

Tracheostomies and Stroke • Thirteen of 25 stroke patients with tracheostomies died in the hospital. Of the 12 survivors, eight died within two and one-half months after discharge and one lived six months. All nine that died after discharge required continuous nursing home care. One survivor still required total nursing care three and one-half years later and two patients made a good recovery. ...