Overview
- Provides an evidence based knowledge for nurses in stroke rehabilitation centres
- Offers specific information to nurses who work in multidisciplinary teams
- Gives valuable insights from international authors
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
In the last five years Bianca published more than 20 articles in national and international peer reviewed and professional journals, and published numerous books and book chapters. She presented her work at more than 70 national and international conferences, and presented more than 15 posters at Dutch and international conferences.
Ever since 1995, GM Ribbers has supervised an inpatient department for patients suffering from severe acquired brain injuries at Rijndam rehabilitation in Rotterdam. In 2012 he was appointed professor Neurorehabilitation at the department of Rehabilitation Medicine of the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam. He currently leads the Rotterdam Neurorehabilitation Research (RoNeRes) group that focuses on effective and efficient treatment strategies for patients with acquired brain injury. The orientation of RoNeRes is clinical rather than fundamental and cross borders the disciplinary bounders of medical, psychological and linguistic disciplines and of human movement sciences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Challenges of Nursing Stroke Management in Rehabilitation Centres
Editors: Bianca Buijck, Gerard Ribbers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76391-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76390-3Published: 17 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09478-2Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76391-0Published: 05 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 160
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Original Dutch edition published by Bohn Stafleu van Loghum, Houten, 2016
Topics: Nursing, Rehabilitation, Neurology