The development of community rehabilitation including Early Supported Discharge (ESD) services for stroke survivors has provided both a challenge over the last six years, but also an opportunity to deliver truly patient centered rehabilitation programmes.
Evidence of how these services should be organised has always been limited. Teams rarely incorporated a nurse, but I believe I now see the role of the community stroke rehabilitation nurse evolving within many teams. I think services are slowly seeing that joint working with nurses can positively strengthen a community team, but also help with the common problems reported by patients on their return home. Do people believe the nurse role is now emerging within these sorts of teams or is it still not a reality?
Sarah Hudson a Stroke Nurse Practitioner working within a community stroke service in Worcestershire has worked for her service for three years now with her nursing colleagues. She would like to ask for comments and feedback on what nursing assessments people commonly use within their community stroke teams?
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