Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

To address this, Rapid Response Team (RRT) nurses have been empowered to lead the Inpatient Stroke Alert process to improve response time.Methods:Beginning in 2016, stroke program leadership in conjunction with frontline RRT nurses worked together to improve the Inpatient Stroke Alert response. minutes (n=6; vs. ED 38.7

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In this study we assessed the treatment benefits of a nurse-driven pre-hospital telemedicine program in a community comprehensive stroke center (CSC).Methods:Telemedicine A tablet was supplied to highly specialized stroke nurses. Methods:Telemedicine services was installed in 4 ambulance units.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Shortening the time from arrival to code stroke activation can lead to faster thrombolytic administration.Methods:Door to code stroke activation and door to needle times were calculated in consecutive code strokes in the emergency department (ED) from 1/2021-11/2021 Pre and 12/2021-12/2022 Post implementation of “Triage to CT” pathway.

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Nursing Stroke Strokes Education 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Analysis of our Get With the Guidelines (GWTG) data reveals gaps in early arrival to the hospital and Emergency Medical Service (EMS) utilization among African American and Hispanic populations. Providing educational resources within these populations may help to close these gaps and foster trust in the healthcare system.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Background and Purpose:Due to continued growth in our neurosciences program, of more than 1,400 discharged stroke patients per year, we saw a need for the creation of a Neuroscience Nurse Navigator (NNN) position, with initial efforts specifically focused in the stroke program.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Neuroscience Nurse Navigator Program [NNN-P], implemented December 2019, included SP who received Alteplase [IV-A] or Mechanical Thrombectomy [MT]. In 2022 SP-S improved from 2021 for f/u instructions & RF [15%].

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MAY 13, 2024

AimsTo assess the barriers to guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) use in heart failure (HF), diagnostic workup and general knowledge about HF among physicians in Sweden.MethodsA survey about the management of HF was sent to 828 Swedish physicians including general practitioners (GPs) and specialists during 2021–2022.

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Heart Failure Nursing Outpatient Education 52

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Health systems may fail to provide screening and follow up for PSA.Methods:Stroke survivors between 10/2022-3/2023 received a phone call from an SCRN to assess anxiety and depression within 30-45 days of discharge using General Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) respectively.

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Nursing Stroke Strokes Quality of Life 40

Cassling

JUNE 30, 2023

The impact of these shortages has affected the gamut of healthcare worker roles -- from physicians and nurses to medical technicians and yes, radiologic technologists. between 2022 and 2030. between 2022 and 2030. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee that deemed them a "national emergency."

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Radiologic Technologist Chronic Disease Nursing Technology 52

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alteplase was the standardized thrombolytic until 2022. The transition from Alteplase to Tenecteplase for AIS patients eligible for thrombolysis occurred on June 6, 2022. Nurses were provided with dosing table and care instruction badge backers. The legal department approved as our new standard of care for AIS.

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Stroke Strokes Thrombolysis Nursing 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

An interdisciplinary initiative was launched that engaged stakeholders from patient safety, the stroke team, and nursing education. Nurses identified stroke symptoms and had gained the confidence to independently activate a code stroke. Root cause analyses of the reported events identified multiple opportunities for improvement.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Neuro-telemetry nurses designed Stroke 90 as a follow-up outreach program to reduce the stroke readmission average by 2% over six months and address knowledge gaps. 90-day readmissions only included inpatient hospital stays with another stroke diagnosis.Results:From September 2022 to December 2022, 6.25

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Stroke Strokes Nursing Education 40

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Methods A convenience sampling method was used to select study participants who were hospitalized for treatment between November 2022 and August 2023 at a tertiary hospital in Neijiang and met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The rate of VTE in the intervention group was 2.5%(1/40), 1/40), and that in the control group was 19.5%(8/41).

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Cancer Thrombosis Quality of Life Nursing 49

Journal of the American Heart Association

MARCH 7, 2025

We evaluated whether TMIs added to usual care could reduce HFrelated rehospitalizations in patients discharged from hospitals in Brazil.MethodsA randomized clinical trial was conducted in 6 public hospitals from September 2021 to June 2022. Patients hospitalized because of HF were randomized to usual care or a multicomponent TMIs.

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Heart Failure Hospital Education Blood Pressure 45

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Therefore, a strategy for successful survey completion is necessary.Method:Data were compared from the pre 1/2022-6/2022 and post intervention 7/2022-12/2022. A QR code was placed in the patient’s stroke education folder and displayed prominently in visible areas.

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Stroke Strokes Certification Education 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Background:A new policy was implemented in November 2021 to reduce the length of post-anesthesia-care-unit (PACU) stay from 6 hours to 4 hours to reduce the nursing care burden and decrease the length of stay, yet how it affected patients’ events after PACU discharge needed close evaluation.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Background and Purpose:2022 Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) guidelines encourage treatment of blood pressure (BP) as soon as possible following identification of ICH. Stroke, Volume 56, Issue Suppl_1 , Page AWP102-AWP102, February 1, 2025.

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Blood Pressure Hemorrhage Nursing Education 40

Dr. Paddy Barrett

APRIL 5, 2024

It’s a multidisciplinary approach involving nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, dieticians, psychologists and many others. JACC Volume 79, Issue 17 , 3 May 2022, Pages 1690-1700 9 Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Obesity without Diabetes. Cardiac Rehabilitation. This is a program that starts the day of your heart attack.

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Heart Disease Coronary Artery Disease Heart Attack Heart attacks 117

DAIC

MAY 2, 2024

As a national community-based cohort, Trajectory and Response to Emergently Administered Therapy for Acute Heart Failure (TREAT-AHF) is a contemporary registry that characterizes a diverse population of 262,673 patients with HF from 2015 to 2022. Reprieve is committed to building these partnerships.”

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Heart Failure Inpatient Hospital Research 105

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This is particularly important for emergency department and interventional radiology nurses who are the ones driving transition of care between departments. This allows for earlier mobilization of resources. In addition, the anesthesia department uses closed loop communication to notify the team of their readiness to receive the patient.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Both thrombolytic agents require a Physician's order and reconstitution by a certified Pharmacist or Registered Nurse prior to administration. Our academic comprehensive stroke center transitioned from Alteplase to Tenecteplase as standard thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke in November 2022.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Initial documentation by nursing began August 2021, and initial documentation compliance of pre-stroke and discharge mRS had not risen above 82%.Methods:A The change was implemented on September 15, 2022.Results:Supplementing They identified 6 steps to complete this process.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Since 2022, our door-to-IV thrombolytic time has remained stagnant. The multidisciplinary team consisted of emergency room physician, vascular neurology attending and resident, emergency room nurse, pharmacist, and computed tomography (C.T.) Furthermore, in 2022, only 29% of patients achieved a DTN time within the 45 min window.

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Certification Nursing Strokes Stroke 40

The British Journal of Cardiology

DECEMBER 3, 2024

We carried out a prospective national specialist nurses in organ donation (SNOD) audit of UK donor offers between 20 August and 31 November 2022, and a prospective national recipient transplant centre audit of all donor offers between 22 September and 19 December 2022. hours (interquartile range [IQR] 13.9–33.2).

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Transplant Echocardiogram Nursing Article 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A dysphagia screening tool used by nurses at the bedside that allows for the direct observation of the patient’s ability to swallow is the Water Swallow Test. If the patient fails the screening, the nurse will notify the provider and the patient will be kept NPO (no meds) pending a speech/swallow consult.

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Stroke Strokes Nursing Education 40

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

OCTOBER 30, 2022

30th October 2022 [How fewer doctors means more doctors – it’s official] This blog has nothing to do with heart disease, or vaccines, or anything directly about medical practice at all. In the UK, more specifically England, doctors and nurses have been leaving the profession in droves. In particular GPs. Even GP numbers have increased!

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

We evaluated the implementation of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) subacute telestroke consult service launched in 2022 by the National Telestroke Program (NTSP).Methods:Program Few studies have evaluated subacute inpatient telestroke programs that focus on subsequent stroke management.

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Inpatient Nursing Strokes Stroke 40

Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

However, tools assessing motivation for HF symptom self-management are lacking.Aims:To develop the Heart Failure Symptom Management Motivation (HF-SMM) questionnaire and assess its content validity with nurse experts.Methods:A cross-sectional study occurred in three phases from November 2022 to April 2024. were deemed acceptable.

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Heart Failure Nursing Circulation Research 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Participants were invited from hospitals with the fastest or slowest DTN times in 2022. Common barriers included identifying stroke in triage, staff turnover, and inadequate stroke coordinator resources.

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Hospital Stroke Strokes Nursing 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

as partner.Methods:The three-year project was launched in May 2021, during first year all specialties and professionals participated in the development and planning of the project and were trained in the use of the devices and own digital platform.First STRACK patient was enrolled in May 2022.

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Stroke Strokes Atrial Fibrillation Risk Factors 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

DESTINY is a screening tool developed as a single tool to screen for all stroke subtypes.Methods:This study is a phase II prospective 2-part adaptive design validation study of DESTINY in the ED during the early triage of suspected stroke patients from 05/01/2022 to 08/08/2022. CSTAT and VAN were embedded in the tool.

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Stroke Strokes Nursing Outcomes 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

DESTINY was developed as a single tool to screen for all stroke subtypes.Methods:This study is a Phase II prospective two part adaptive design validation study of DESTINY in ED during the early triage of suspected stroke patients from 05/01/2022 to 08/08/2022.

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Stroke Strokes Nursing Hemorrhage 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A diabetic educator or advanced practice nurse was consulted for patients with stroke and elevated A1c. Pre-implementation data from October 2021 to March 2022 were compared to post-implementation data from October 2022 to March 2023.Results:A Results:A review of 273 cases was completed.

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Diabetes Stroke Strokes Education 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Nursing, radiology, and pharmacy leadership across the region participate in regional stroke and quality committees.Methods:Clinical education for FSED staff aligns with hospital-based EDs but includes competencies related to lack of ancillary services at the FSEDs.

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Stroke Strokes Education Certification 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

The intervention program for feeding practices was primarily carried out by ward nurses. Outcomes were compared between an intervention group of 28 patients and a historical control group of 33 patients recruited between Jan 2021 to Jul 2022. It consisted of thickener preparation and feeding patients skills training.

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Strokes Stroke Nursing Outcomes 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Methods:Data from adult patients who discharged from two medical centers in Portland, OR in 2019 or between January 2022 and May 2023 were abstracted from electronic medical records. This study aims to evaluate whether NIHSS, AMPAC or total rehab duration while hospitalized predicts DD or length of stay (LOS).Methods:Data

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Hemorrhage Hospital Strokes Stroke 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

We aimed to identify factors contributing to neuroscience (neurology or neurosurgery) appointment attendance and the impact on readmission and 90-day function outcomes.Methods:Retrospective analysis of hemorrhagic stroke patients with care coordinated by a stroke nurse navigator from one of seven hospitals between January 2022 and March 2024.

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