Stroke is a medical emergency. With active and efficient nursing management in the initial hours after stroke onset, effective recovery and rehabilitation is increased. Acute Stroke Nursing provides nurses with a current, evidenced based, practical text facilitating the provision of optimal stroke care during the primary prevention and acute phases.

This timely and practical text is structured to follow the acute stroke pathway experienced by patients. It explores the symptoms, causes and effects of stroke and provides guidance on issues such as nutrition, continence, positioning, mobility and continence. The text also considers rehabilitation. discharge planning, palliative care and the role of the nurse within the multiprofessional team. Acute Stroke Nursing is an essential guide to the management of acute stroke for all nurses health care professional wishing to extend their knowledge of stroke nursing

Stroke is a medical emergency. With active and efficient nursing management in the initial hours after stroke onset, effective recovery and rehabilitation is increased. "Acute Stroke Nursing" provides nurses with a current, evidenced based, practical text facilitating the provision of optimal stroke care during the primary prevention and acute phases. This timely and practical text is structured to follow the acute stroke pathway experienced by patients. It explores the symptoms, causes and effects of stroke and provides guidance on issues such as nutrition, continence, positioning, mobility and continence. The text also considers rehabilitation. discharge planning, palliative care and the role of the nurse within the multi professional team. "Acute Stroke Nursing" is an essential guide to the management of acute stroke for all nurses health care professional wishing to extend their knowledge of stroke nursing.

Stroke is a medical emergency. With active and efficient nursing management in the initial hours after stroke onset, effective recovery and rehabilitation is increased. Acute Stroke Nursing provides nurses with a current, evidenced based, practical text facilitating the provision of optimal stroke care during the primary prevention and acute phases.

This timely and practical text is structured to follow the acute stroke pathway experienced by patients. It explores the symptoms, causes and effects of stroke and provides guidance on issues such as nutrition, continence, positioning, mobility and continence. The text also considers rehabilitation. discharge planning, palliative care and the role of the nurse within the multiprofessional team. Acute Stroke Nursing is an essential guide to the management of acute stroke for all nurses health care professional wishing to extend their knowledge of stroke nursing

Dr Jane Williams is Chair of the National Stroke Nursing Forum, committee member and former chair of the Royal College of Nursing, Rehabilitation and Intermediate Care Nursing Forum, and Co?organiser of the Southern Stroke Nurses? Forum. She is a Consultant Nurse in Stroke Care at the East Hampshire Primary Care Trust and holds honorary senior lecturer contracts at both Southampton and Portsmouth Universities.

Dr Lin Perry is a Senior Research Fellow in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke at St Bartholomew?s School of Nursing & Midwifery, City University.