Thursday, 15 January 2015
A new research paper has been published in Disabibily and Rehabilitaion (Nov 2014) exploring the percieved role of nurses in stroke rehabilitation. Understanding nursing practice in stroke rehabilitation. The study explored the perceived role of nurses in stroke rehabilitation, when acting as part of a multidisciplinary team (MDT) on hospital stroke units. The researchers concluded that MDT members understood the contribution that nurses with stroke rehabilitation skills can make to effective stroke. However, realising their potential as full partners in stroke rehabilitation is unlikely to occur without the introduction of structured competency-based MDT training in rehabilitation skills. More information can be found on the Stroke Association website at www.stroke.org.uk/research/new-research-understanding-nursing-practice-stroke-rehabilitation?
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Saturday, 29 November 2014
UK Stroke Forum Conference 2nd - 4th Dec
The NSNF is getting ready to be at the UK Stroke Forum conference in Harrogate next week.
Come and visit our stand in Hall H, and our Annual General Meeting is on Tuesday 2nd December at 5pm.
Come and see how we have been representing stroke nursing over the last year, and our plans for the next year.
We will be lauching a new project 'National Conversation'.... watch this space!
Sunday, 28 September 2014
New electronic resource - the South Yorkshire Dysphagia Toolkit
This online, interprofessional Dysphagia Toolkit is the result of several years of work carried out through CLARHC-funded service-improvement projects in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
The Toolkit offers a compendium of practical resources and information to support educators/trainers in delivering training sessions and to promote dysphagia as a patient safety issue.
There are three main sections. Each starts with a detailed contents page, which also indicates the document format. Some are in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint format so that they can be amended/customised to suit a range of purposes. The sections are:
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- Background to the development and testing of the Toolkit; the Inter-Professional Dysphagia Framework; Skills for Health and Training Needs Analysis ·
- Resources for trainers to deliver Awareness and Assistant Dysphagia Practitioner training; information about the other levels of the Framework and tips for trainers ·
- Information resources for all about quality of life, nutrition, hydration, alternative forms of feeding, aspiration, administering medicines and mouth care
The Toolkit can be freely accessed directly from: www.dysphagiatoolkit.nihr.ac.uk
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