need help for educating stroke pt.

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Hi everyone..I need help for discharge teaching on a stroke pt. Her admitting Dx to rehab hospital is acute ischemic stroke. Has right side weakness. Her past Dx are-DM,HTN,ESRD, And hx of 2 CVAs, cocaine and tobacco abuse. Has AV graft on right forearm. Takes lovenox for DVT hemodialysis. uses hemiwalker. I am doing METHOD teaching-Medication,environment,treatments,health knowledge of disease,outpt/inpt referrals, & diet.

I have few stuffs to write but just thought i wud get different ppls ideas too so i can add if im missing something. Thank you so much.:dancgrp:

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Hi there and welcome to allnurses.com

I use the stroke association to get patient information and education, I know it is a UK site but there is some useful information there.

I am not sure if the American stroke association has similar but here is the weblink

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I found this website that has a lot of good information about stroke and patient education: www.netce.com.

It's a continuing education website, but you can see all of the course content without paying. The link for the stroke information is here: http://www.netce.com/coursecontent.php?courseid=484#BEGIN

It looks like it has a lot of information on the the things you described. Hope this helps!

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Sometimes you can't teach what people aren't willing to learn!

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