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Plan:

  • Per stroke best practice guidelines, stroke education must be provided verbally and in literature format post stroke. Our plan is to improve compliance and documentation of stroke education by improving staff awareness of patient's stroke education status. by enhancing communication and improving the documentation process, nursing practice can be supported, and best patient care delivered.
  • Per stroke guidelines, education on individualized risk factors is preferred by patients. Studies support that patient education is an effective method to improve vascular risk factors (Meschia, Bushnell, Boden-Albata, et al, 2014).

Act:

  • As with prior to the implementation of adding notes to the secure chat, charts were audited daily for stroke education compliance and notes were placed for nursing in the Care Team Communication section of EMR.
  • A stroke patient list for the hospital is sent to the unit educator Monday through Friday for review and follow up.
  • The educator reviews charts for education documentation including individualized risk factors and literature being documented as given.
  • We will continue this process as we have seen significant improvement over the last year. This will continue until educator does not have to send secure chat messages.

Publication Date

Spring 2023

Publisher

CentraCare

City

St. Cloud, MN

Keywords

Stroke, Patient education, Guideline compliance, Stroke prevention and control

Disciplines

Other Nursing

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2023 Nurses Week Poster

Stroke Education Compliance Improvement

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