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Successful Implementation of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale on a Stroke/Neurovascular Unit
The NIHSS has been integrated successfully into standard nursing practice in assessments of acute stroke patients on the stroke/neurovascular unit. The nurses felt empowered throughout the project ...
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Successful Implementation of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale on a Stroke/Neurovascular Unit
A secondary goal was to integrate the NIHSS tool into standard nursing practice by the end of 2004. We wanted 80% of stroke patients ... and a 5-point Likert scale (1 = weak belief, 5 = strong ...