Building a Knowledge to Action Program in Stroke Rehabilitation

From knowledge to action and back again: Building a bridge

Implementation of a Stroke Competency Program to Improve Nurses' Knowledge of and Adherence to Stroke Guidelines.

BACKGROUND Nurses play an integral part in providing evidence-based care to patients with stroke, yet some patients receive unnecessary or even harmful care. The literature supports the use of multifaceted strategies to promote implementation of evidence-based practice; however, there is a gap in knowing which combinations of strategies are most successful. PURPOSE The purpose of this study w...

Effect of a Caregiver's Education Program on Stroke Rehabilitation

OBJECTIVE To evaluate effects of caregiver's education program on their satisfaction, as well as patient functional recovery, performed in addition to daily conventional rehabilitation treatment. METHODS Three hundred eleven subjects diagnosed with first-onset stroke and transferred to the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of Inha University Hospital were surveyed. In 2015, c...

A rehabilitation program for patients recovering from severe stroke.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to describe the outcomes of patients with a severe stroke admitted to a specialized "slow stream" rehabilitation program and to develop a model to predict discharge destination. METHODS Chart review of 196 consecutive non-ambulatory ("lower-band") stroke patients admitted between 1996-2001, to a specialized in-patient rehabilitation unit designed to acc...

Building Intentional Action Knowledge with One’s Hands

Understanding others' actions as intentional is fundamental to everyday social life. Adults view even the simplest and most concrete actions not as sheer movements, but rather as actions organized by intentions. To illustrate, observing a group of children and a ball traversing a soccer field, we perceive the motions of the former, but not the latter, as structured with respect to a goal, in th...