Application of inter-professional care model in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage.

OBJECTIVE: To explore the feasibility and effect of the inter-professional care model in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. METHODS: A convenient sampling method was used to recruit inpatients of a hospital as subjects from July 2016 to July 2018. According to the even/odd attribute of admission number, subjects were divided into a control group and an observation group. The number of recruited subjects was 311: the control group comprised 135 participants and the observation group 176. The average length of hospital stay, hospital fees, quality of life, and satisfaction with the quality of nursing were compared between the two groups. SPIRIT checklist was completed (see File S1). RESULTS: After intervention, patients in the observation group had shorter average hospital stay (15.98 ± 2.7), lower hospital fees (81,018 ± 1.3), higher satisfaction with the quality of nursing (98.3%), lower incidence of complications (19.89%), improved ability to perform activities of daily living, and lower rate of disease outcome and re-admission, with statistically significant differences from the control group (p < .05). CONCLUSION: The application of inter-professional care model in single disease patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage can shorten the average hospital stay, reduce hospital fees, improve the quality of life of patients, and increase patients' satisfaction with the quality of nursing, which is worthy of clinical promotion and application. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT SECTION: Nursing managers can use this model to improve the ability to ensure coordination between medical professionals and integrate the ability of nursing problems, the ability to make rational distribution of nursing human resources, and the ability of critical thinking. It can be used as reference to improve the nursing management of all kinds of single diseases.

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From monitoring physiological functions to using psychological strategies. Nurses' view of caring for the aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage patient.

AIMS: The aims of this study were: (1) to describe nurses' views of the physical and supportive needs of patients who have suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH), (2) to describe nurses' views of changes in social circumstances and (3) changes in the mental condition of patients after SAH. BACKGROUND: As patients with SAH are generally younger and predominantly female compared with other stroke groups they may have different needs of nursing support to facilitate adaptation. Caring for persons surviving stroke involves advanced nursing skills such as monitoring neurological functions in neurointensive care and providing physical care during rehabilitation. DESIGN: Explorative descriptive design. METHOD: Semi-structured interviews were performed with 18 nurses in neurointensive and rehabilitation care. A qualitative latent content analysis was conducted. RESULTS: Nurses viewed patients' need for support as a process ranging from highly advanced technological care to 'softer' more emotional care. However, shortages in the communication between neurointesive and rehabilitation nurses regarding this support were acknowledged. Changes in social circumstances and mental conditions were viewed both as obstacles and advantages regarding return to everyday life. Nurses also viewed that the characteristics of the group with SAH was not particularly different from the group with other types of stroke. CONCLUSIONS: Support to patients with SAH is viewed as a process carried out by nurses at neurointensive care units and rehabilitation units. Shortages in communication, regarding this support, were acknowledged. Obstacles and advantages with respect to returning to everyday life could apply to any stroke group, which could make it more difficult for nurses to detect the specific needs of patients with SAH. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: The communication between neurointensive nurses and rehabilitation nurses regarding support to patients with SAH is not satisfactory. Occasionally the specific needs of patients with SAH are not recognized.

Subarachnoid haemorrhage and vasospasm: using physiological theory to generate nursing interventions.

Caring for critically ill patients with a subarachnoid haemorrhage and preventing its most prevalent and devastating complication, vasospasm, requires an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms which underpin the physiology of SAH. This is essential to provide appropriate nursing practice derived from theory. All too often practitioners are asked to follow unsubstantiated regimes without question of the origins of practices. This paper approaches the physiological theory underpinning the mechanisms surrounding subarachnoid haemorrhage and the altered cerebral and extracerebral dysfunction which can occur. Physiological theory is analysed to generate nursing interventions which may be individually tailored to provide comprehensive nursing care with a sound underpinning to its practice. The foundations of effective management of SAH lies within prevention, early diagnosis, and correction of complications [Neurosurg. Clin. North Am. 9 (3) (1998) 595]. In order for such identification to take place, it is essential to have an understanding of the physiological theory that underpins the basis of care interventions. These interventions should compliment all other theoretical input that influences patient care and nursing practice, contributing to a holistic, dynamically formulated plan of care.

Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage--part 1: Pre-operative nursing management diagnosis, complications and treatment: a composite case study.

Patients who survive an Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage or ASAH describe it as being the worst headache ever, multiplied one hundred-times over. It is a debilitating and life threatening condition, which affects approximately 6.5 people per 100,000 throughout Australia and New Zealand every year (The ACROSS group, 2000). When caring for a patient post Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage or ASAH meticulous monitoring of the patient's neurological, cardiovascular, hepatic, endocrine, renal, and respiratory functions are vital. Due to both the initial ASAH and its complications such as rebleed, cerebral vasospasm, hydrocephalus, cerebral oedema, seizures as well as adverse reactions to counteract these potential problems. All of, which can cause significant long-term morbidity as well as potential mortality if left, undiagnosed and untreated. The following article presets a composite patient highlighting clinical manifestations of ASAH, its associated complications as well as various methods of detecting, preventing and treating them.