Tag: Stroke
A stroke is a serious life-threatening medical condition that happens when the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off. Strokes are a medical emergency and urgent treatment is essential. The sooner a person receives treatment for a stroke, the less damage is likely to happen.
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Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients
Nursing Assignments
Affecting nearly 795,000 patients in the United States each year, stroke is one of the leading causes of people, mostly adults, with long-term disability....
Last modified: 26th May 2021
Stroke Recovery Essay
Nursing Essays
Recovering from a stroke can be a rather long process that requires a lot of dedication, hard work, and patience. It may take years to recover, and not that is not even fully recovering. According to the National Stroke Association, “25 percent of people who have a stroke recover with little to minor impairments...
Last modified: 13th Apr 2021
Reflection of Role of Prescribing for Patient with Stroke
Reflective Essays
The World Health Organisation (1978) describes stroke as a disease of probable vascular origin, which is categorised by symptoms developing in a sudden nature, which due to the interruption of cerebra...
Last modified: 15th Dec 2020
Care for Individual that has Suffered Acute Stroke
Nursing Essays
Introduction The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate care that is provided for an individual who has suffered an acute stroke . In this instance, the scenario that will be considered ; is about a ...
Last modified: 5th May 2020
Reflective essay: Stroke patient
Reflective Essays
ASSIGNMENT FROM MOTHER NA’ A Reflective Essay on significant patient care event within a multidisciplinary setting. This will be a reflective analysis on a significant event that I have observe...
Last modified: 12th Feb 2020
PBL - Stroke Case Study
Nursing Case Studies
Written by: Yung Bing Yong Introduction The brain is the primary organ of the centre nervous system that controls our body and houses our mind. It is metabolically active and dependent on a continuou...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Stroke Case Study | Pathophysiology and Care Delivery Plan
Nursing Case Studies
This paper will discuss the case study relating to the patient, Mrs Amelia Middleton, and answer a series of questions relating to the pathophysiology of stroke, nursing care of the patient, and resp...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Can recovery from stroke and depression be assisted by pets?
Nursing Questions
Question Can recovery from stroke and depression be assisted by pets? Answer Monty Don, a presenter of BBC2’s Gardeners World, reported in an article in The Times (2016) that adopting a puppy (Nigel...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Providing Rehabilitative Care To People Post Stroke Life Nursing Essay
Nursing Essays
Stroke is a catastrophic event for survivors and their families because significant numbers of stroke survivors experience biophysical and psychosocial limitations after they return to home (Oswald 20...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Annotated Bibliography: Nursing Care of Patient With Stroke
Nursing Essays
This annotated bibliography will discuss three pieces of literatures, which include a Department of health policy. Demonstrating an understanding of the chosen articles with the use of additional lit...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Nursing Crisis Intervention: Stroke
Nursing Essays
Stroke is a global problem of the increasing elderly population. According to the Department of Health (2007a), stroke is the third leading cause of death in the UK, with more than 110,000 individual...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Occupational Therapy After A Stroke Health And Social Care Essay
Nursing Essays
This meta analysis of the referenced studies aim to evaluate efficacy of occupational therapy: whether it focused specifically on personal activities of daily living improves recovery for patients fol...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Patients With Post Stroke Dysphagia Health And Social Care Essay
Nursing Essays
This chapter deals with discussion, summary and conclusions drawn. It clarifies the limitations of the study, the implications and recommendations given for different areas in Nursing practice, Educat...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Stroke The Causes And Effects Health And Social Care Essay
Nursing Essays
In this assignment I discuss Paul who is a 65 year old male and has suffered a stroke. My aim is to explain what a stroke is, the causes and effects, and give you my understanding of how I as a Healt...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
The Role Of Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Stroke
Nursing Essays
INTRODUCTION Stroke is a “rapidly developing clinical signs of focal disturbance of cerebral function, lasting more than 24 hours or leading to death with no apparent cause other than that of va...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Risk Factors for Stroke: a Prospective Hospital-Based Study
Nursing Essays
Javed Akhter Rathore, Zulfiqar Ali kango, Munazza Nazir, Adnan Mehraj Department of Medicine Combined Military/Sheik Khalifa Bin Zyad Hospital Muzaffarabad Azad Kashmir Background: The stroke is th...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Health Risks of Weight Gain and Obesity
Nursing Essays
This essay will analyse some of the main health risks posed by weight gain and obesity such as the risk of developing chronic heart disease, diabetes and cancer. It will also discuss some of the fact...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
