You are here

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Volume 15, Issue 2
  • Nurses trained in the use of the ROSIER tool can assess signs and symptoms of stroke with comparable accuracy to doctors performing standard neurological assessment.

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Care of older people
Quantitative study - other
Nurses trained in the use of the ROSIER tool can assess signs and symptoms of stroke with comparable accuracy to doctors performing standard neurological assessment.
  1. Holli A DeVon1,
  2. Patricia Zrelak2
  1. 1Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, USA
  2. 2Stroke Program, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA
  1. Correspondence to Holli A DeVon
    Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California Davis, 4610 X St., Suite 4202, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA; Holli.DeVon{at}ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs.2011.100300

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Commentary on: Byrne B, O’Halloran P, Cardwell C. Accuracy of stroke diagnosis by registered nurses using the ROSIER tool compared to doctors using neurological assessment on a stroke unit: a prospective audit. Int J Nurs Stud 2011;48:979–85.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMed

    Implications for practice and research

    • ■ Rapid assessment of patients with potential stroke is imperative for triage nurses.

    • ■ The Recognition of Stroke in the Emergency Room (ROSIER) scale may help triage nurses rapidly recognise stroke and differentiate between potential stroke and common stroke mimics.

    • ■ The following guidelines are recommended for patients with ischaemic stroke1:

    • ■ Administration of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) within 3 h of ischaemic stroke and up to 4.5 h in a select subgroup of patients.

    • ■ Evaluation of stroke symptoms by a physician within 10 min of arrival.

    • ■ …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None.