Stroke 2: expanding the nurse's role in stroke rehabilitation.
This article, the second of two considering the nurse's role in stroke rehabilitation, focuses on potential nursing contributions in a number of areas. There is scope, particularly in the community, to develop a far greater nursing role in both the acute and the postacute phases of rehabilitation. However, nurses often have ambivalent attitudes towards rehabilitation--seeing acute care as more prestigious and important. Such attitudes are developed and reinforced in basic training which gives relatively little emphasis to chronic illness.
Nolan
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School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield.
Nolan
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D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D019145:Rehabilitation Nursing