Nursing interventions for patients with stroke : A descriptive review

Sammanfattning: Background: Stroke is a global health problem, which affects more than 15 millionpeople each year worldwide and leads to high mortality and disability rates. Theprevalence and incidence of stroke in an aging population continued to rise, and somescholars estimated that by 2030, the incidence of stroke was expected to increase toabout three times the current incidence. As the second leading cause of deathworldwide, stroke could have long-term negative effects on patients and higher medicalcosts, seriously impairing people's quality of life.Objective: The aim of the descriptive review was to describe the nursing interventionsfor patients with stroke.Methods: By using the search terms ‘stroke’ ‘nursing intervention’ and ‘cerebralinfarction’, 10 publications on nursing interventions related to stroke survivors weresystematically searched in PubMed to address the research questions.Results: Our findings are divided into four themes: (1) general clinical care interventions(2) new care interventions (3) reminiscence therapy (4) theory or model-led careinterventions. 10 nursing interventions, including monitoring, activity interventions,patient care pathways, integrated care interventions, environmental interventions, newcare interventions, reminiscence therapy, PDCA and Orem self-care theory and evidencebased care have been shown to help stroke patients improve their condition, relieve thesuffering caused by the disease and have a good prognosis.Conclusion: Even though a variety of methods have been found to treat and prevent stroke,each intervention has its own scope of application in clinical practice, so nursingpractitioners also need to provide nursing interventions that take into account the patient'spsycho-physical condition in order to better manage the symptoms and complications ofstroke and improve quality of life. In addition to this, new internet-based and theory-basednursing interventions can also be used to treat and prevent stroke patients.Key word: cerebral infarction, nursing intervention, stroke