This volume provides integral knowledge of all aspects of stroke care and rehabilitation after
stroke and is therefore highly relevant for nurses who work in rehabilitation centers. It
outlines the several phases after stroke for example the type of care patients may receive in
the chronically phase at home. Nurses will obtain knowledge about treatment importance of
observation and caring with a special focus on communication problems swallowing problems
activities of daily living urinary and defecation problems shoulder and hand issues. Thanks
to photographs nurses will learn to transfer patients in the adequate positions. Several
chapters provide nurses with examples of effective and efficient collaboration with
multidisciplinary professionals informal caregivers and patients themselves. There is also an
emphasis on behavior and cognitive functioning. And lastly in the final chapters authors
highlight the organization of rehabilitation and integrated care issues. Nurses play a very
important role in rehabilitation education counseling prevention and caring for patients
with cerebrovascular accident (CVA). In caring for stroke patients nurses need specific
competences and abilities that go beyond the general neurologic knowledge and experience.
Nurses need to collaborate in an efficient and effective manner with multidisciplinary team
members in their organization and across organizations. This book discusses medical aspects and
specific symptoms of a stroke as well as the limitations that patients experience and which
interventions are indicated for recovery.
