Nurses Activate Inpatient Stroke Alerts Faster than Physicians and ...

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• Reached out to: Introduction • Non-Neurological Floor Nurse Managers • Medical Emergency Team Managers • Non-Neurological Floor Nurse Educators • Nursing ACLS Instructors • Focused stroke education on • Patient’s Assessment relating to acute strokes • Importance of the “Last Known Well” time • “Time-to-treatment” considerations • Encouraged <strong>and</strong> empowered nursing to activate stroke alerts immediately • Acknowledged nursing on an individual basis
Hypothesis • Educated non-neurological nurses activating the stroke alert system will identify as great a proportion of acute strokes (as opposed to stroke mimics) as physicians in the same units • Educated non-neurological nurses will activate the stroke alert system as fast as physicians in the same units
Page 1 and 2: Nurses Activate Inpatient Stroke Al
Page 3: Introduction • Our stroke nurse,
Page 7 and 8: • Statistics: Methods - proportio
Page 9 and 10: Results • 60% (56/93) of the stro
Page 11 and 12: Results (Time to activation) • Nu
Page 13 and 14: Conclusions • Non-neurological un
Page 15 and 16: Limitations • We do not have a co

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