24/7 Neurocritical Care Nurse Practitioner Coverage Reduced Door-to-Needle Time in Stroke Patients Treated with Tissue Plasminogen Activator

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1148-1152

  Moran, Jennifer L ^a   Nakagawa, Kazuma ^a,b   Asai, Susan M ^a   Koenig, Matthew A ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

nurse practitioner; outcomes; staffing models; Stroke; thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ACUTE CARE NURSE PRACTITIONER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOOR TO NEEDLE TIME; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMAGING TO NEEDLE TIME; INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME TO TREATMENT; CONVALESCENCE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HAWAII; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING; OUT-OF-HOURS CARE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STROKE; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL CARE NURSING; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HAWAII; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84973460189     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: 15328511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2016.01.033     Document Type: Article

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