Course Goals:

This course aims to educate healthcare professionals on primary stroke center clinical practice guidelines. Exploring evidence-based recommendations and best practices for stroke care will enhance participants' ability to deliver standardized and timely care, resulting in improved outcomes and increased patient satisfaction.

Professional Outcomes:

• Describe incidence, signs & symptoms, subtypes, pathogenic mechanism, and risk factors associated with stroke.​  
  
• Explain anatomy and physiology to include vascular territories and common locations for strokes    
  
• Recognize the pathophysiology of ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes  
  
• Recognize stroke clinical manifestations​  
  
• Describe stroke prevention interventions  
  
• Describe pre-hospital and acute care management of stroke patients  
  
• Summarize the stroke chain or survival  
  
• Describe the emergency department time frame for stroke survival  
  
• Describe acute care management of the stroke patient  in the critical care setting.  
  
• Educate patient and families about the problem areas that medication groups, to include medication name, dose, schedule, route, technique of administration, expected response, adverse effects, drug-drug and food-drug interactions.   
  
• Describe the role of the interdisciplinary care team in stroke recovery  
  
• Describe the levels of rehabilitation care (Acute, Subacute, Long-Term, Assisted Living, Home Health)   
  
• Explain Neuroplasticity and Stroke Recovery  
  
• Identify levels of stroke center certification by certifying bodies ​  
  
• Explain core measures required for stroke patient management​  
  
• Describe stroke protocols and pathways. ​  
  
• Identify the roles of the acute stroke team. ​  
  
• Implement methodology for quality improvement projects to improve stroke outcomes ​  
  
• Choose appropriate tools for performance improvement for stroke care patients.