Taking an acute stroke service to the next level
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Taking an acute stroke service to the next level

Chris Sanders An advanced nurse practitioner, at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

How an advanced nurse practitioner programme transformed our practice and improved access and outcomes for our patients

In 2014, our acute stroke service was not meeting the required national standard.

The team of five whole-time-equivalent nurse specialists would take new referrals between 7.30am and 5pm and coordinate the stroke pathway through University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. They were trained to do National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale assessment (NIHSS), but needed a medical review to complete their admission clerking, prescribing and requesting of further investigations.

Nursing Standard. 35, 4, 72-74. doi: 10.7748/ns.35.4.72.s22

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