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Missed Opportunities for Recognition of Ischemic Stroke in the Emergency Department
Introduction: Evidence suggests that a significant number of patients discharged from the hospital with a diagnosis of ischemic stroke are not identified as having a stroke on admission. Those presenting with “nontraditional” stroke symptoms may be less likely to be diagnosed correctly. We aimed to establish whether there was an association between symptom presentation and diagnostic accuracy and to identify the type and frequency of nontraditional symptoms that resulted in a missed diagnosis in the emergency department.Methods: We reviewed the medical records of 189 patients discharged with a diagnosis of ischemic str...
Source: Journal of Emergency Nursing: JEN - May 28, 2012 Category: Nursing Authors: Natasha M. Lever, Karin V. Nyström, Joseph L. Schindler, Janet Halliday, Charles Wira, Marjorie Funk Tags: Research Source Type: research

Clustered stroke patients on a general medical unit: what nursing skills and knowledge contribute to optimal patient outcomes?
Authors: Clayton B Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explore the nurse's role in caring for adult stroke patients, both ischemic and hemorrhagic, who are clustered on general medical units. There is evidence in the literature that having patients cared for in a dedicated stroke unit improves patient outcomes by decreasing disability and mortality rates for stroke survivors. However having a dedicated stroke unit may not be practical or feasible because of the population distribution, particularly for smaller urban and rural communities. Therefore, training nurses on the general medical units to provide care ...
Source: Canadian Journal of Neuroscience Nursing - November 18, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: Can J Neurosci Nurs Source Type: research

Neurological assessment by nurses using the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale: implementation of best practice guidelines.
Authors: Gocan S, Fisher A Abstract Assessment is an essential nursing skill that gathers clinical information to strengthen decisions about health interventions and priorities inpatient care delivery. Neurological assessment of the acute stroke survivor provides the cornerstone for early diagnosis, appropriate prognostic evaluation, and optimal management to obtain favourable patient outcomes. The nursing approach to neurological assessment has been enhanced in recent years through the development of new evidence-based assessment tools and the support of best practice guidelines. Based on gaps seen in clinical pra...
Source: Canadian Journal of Neuroscience Nursing - November 18, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: Can J Neurosci Nurs Source Type: research

Promoting Evidence-Based Practice at a Primary Stroke Center: A Nurse Education Strategy
Background: Promoting a culture of evidence-based practice within a health care facility is a priority for health care leaders and nursing professionals; however, tangible methods to promote translation of evidence to bedside practice are lacking. Objectives: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to design and implement a nursing education intervention demonstrating to the bedside nurse how current evidence-based guidelines are used when creating standardized stroke order sets at a primary stroke center, thereby increasing confidence in the use of standardized order sets at the point of care and supporting e...
Source: Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing - June 6, 2017 Category: Nursing Tags: Educational DIMENSION Source Type: research

Women and In-hospital Stroke Code Activation: Age, Ethnicity, and Unique Symptoms Matter
Background Women have worse stroke outcomes than men, and almost 17% of all stroke cases have symptom onset when admitted to the hospital for a separate condition. Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the distinctive factors that impact the activation of an in-hospital stroke code and outcomes in women who have a stroke while admitted to the hospital for a separate condition. Methods A retrospective observational propensity score study guided by the model for nursing effectiveness was used. Results In-hospital stroke code was activated in 46 of 149 or 30.9% of women and 15 of 149 or 1...
Source: Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing - April 19, 2021 Category: Nursing Tags: ARTICLES: Women and Cardiovascular Disease Source Type: research

Practice of integrated treatment process for acute ischaemic stroke in hospital coordinated by emergency stroke nurses
AbstractAimsTo explore the practice effect of establishing an integrated treatment process by stroke emergency nurses in general hospitals for acute ischaemic stroke (AIS).DesignCompared the time spent in each link before and after the establishment of AIS integrated treatment.MethodsSince March 2016, we set up a team of emergency stroke nurses (ESN), trained and assessed the knowledge of emergency stroke, and set up a post of ESN.ResultsThe median time of admission-judgement, admission-establishment of venous access, admission-cranial CT examination and admission-intravenous thrombolytic therapy was statistically signific...
Source: Nursing Open - November 6, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Dongmei Li, Hongjian Zhang, Xiaoying Lu, Lingjuan Zhang, Jianmin Liu Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

Outcomes of a Stroke Response Team on the Emergent Management of Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Discussion Implementation of a stroke response team increased the knowledge of the care team, improved the timeliness of blood pressure control, and decreased the time for emergency department arrival to a critical care bed, and to anticoagulation reversal agent administration.
Source: Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing - April 6, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: Leadership DIMENSION Source Type: research