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Rehabilitating stroke patients in the acute care setting
Medsurg Nursing : Official Journal of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses
|October 1, 1996
Abstract:
The 1990s has been heralded as the Decade of the Brain. The National Stroke Association refers to stroke as a brain attack. Medical and nursing interventions are aimed at limiting the extent of brain injury, promoting early reperfusion, and preventing complications as a result of secondary injury or hazards of immobility. Medical-surgical nurses play a key role in facilitating collaborative rehabilitation in the acute care setting to achieve expected outcomes for the patient and family.