Nursing practice in stroke rehabilitation: Perspectives from multi‐disciplinary healthcare professionals

Abstract

In this qualitative, descriptive study, we explored the status of and factors related to nursing practice for stroke rehabilitation in China, considering the perspectives of multi‐disciplinary healthcare professionals. Fifteen participants were interviewed in depth, followed by field observations at three healthcare institutions. Data were analyzed using ethnographic data analysis methods. Current nursing practice for patients with stroke emerged as a cultural domain that included nine patterns: coordination of nursing, basic nursing following nursing procedures, limited rehabilitation nursing care with varied functions, therapeutic function in rehabilitation care, the importance of nurses' involvement in rehabilitation, environments making rehabilitation nursing possible, inadequate staffing for the numerous clinical nursing practices, lack of effective communication with other healthcare professionals, and lack of policies regarding rehabilitation nursing practice. Nurses' role in stroke rehabilitation must be addressed by updating nursing practice. Further, stroke team leaders must recognize the constraints faced by nurses in fulfilling their stroke‐rehabilitation roles.

Intervention Effect of Rapid Rehabilitation Nursing Combined with Continuous Nursing after Discharge on Patients with Cerebral Infarction in Recovery Period and the Changes in Motor Function, Mental State, and Quality of Life

“…Rapid rehabilitation nursing combined with continuous nursing after discharge helps patients to establish a positive attitude, helps patients master home nursing operation, promotes the integration of hospital and family, and makes patients actively cooperate with functional rehabilitation training, thus making patients physically and mentally healthy. e combined application of the two nursing modes has greatly improved patients' anxiety, depression, and other bad emotions caused by diseases, which is helpful to promote CI patients in recovery period to maintain a gradual recovery mentality, give patients great encouragement and support, and then significantly improve their living standards [18,19].…”

The Effect of Implementing Ischemic Stroke Nursing Management Protocol on Critical Care Nurses’ Knowledge and Practices

“…The current study found that there was a statistically significant difference in nurses' knowledge and practices regarding the neurological evaluation of stroke patients. This could be due to nurses' clinical practices before ischemic stroke nursing management protocol implementation was mainly focused on general nursing care for stroke patients regardless of the disease phase (Meng, Chen, & Zhou, 2020). This finding is consistent with Novak (2019) who mentioned that 73.1% of participant nurses were able to apply NIHSS correctly after implementing an education program on NIHSS among staff nurses working in the neurological ICU.…”

The Efficacy of Rehabilitation Nursing Interventions on Patients with Open Lower Limb Fractures

“…In order to avoid the use of analgesics, nursing staff should explain how to divert pain attention to patients when the pain can be tolerated. The nursing staff were required to strengthen ward inspection [ 10 ] to inquire about the pain degree every day. If the VAS score exceeds 4 points, then report the pain to the doctor in time.…”