The Challenges of Nursing Stroke Management in Rehabilitation Centres

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Buijck, Bianca (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ribbers, Gerard (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Nursing.; Rehabilitation.; Neurology .; Neurology.

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 pha...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Stroke - medical aspects
• Chapter 2. Acute phase
• Chapter 3. Recovery after a stroke
• Chapter 4. Therapeutic climate
• Chapter 5. Multidisciplinary collaboration
• Chapter 6. Skills
• Chapter 7. Swallowing disorders
• Chapter 8. Communication disorders
• Chapter 9. Activities in daily life (ADL)
• Chapter 10. Urinary incontinence after stroke
• Chapter 11. Problems with the shoulder and hand due to hemiplegia
• Chapter 12. Cognition, emotion, and behavior
• Chapter 13. Neuropsychiatric symptoms after a stroke
• Chapter 14. Care in the chronic phase - care at home
• Chapter 15. Integrated care pathways after stroke
• Chapter 16. An example: course developed in the Rotterdam Stroke Service (The Netherlands).