A project was developed to determine the barriers to NIHSS use by the nursing staff ... and a 5-point Likert scale (1 = weak belief, 5 = strong belief) to measure staff nurse beliefs.

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a well-validated, reliable scoring system for use specifically with stroke patients (Goldstein, Bertels, & Davis, 1989; Lyden et al., ...

In 2022, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty members Heather Volk and Christine Ladd-Acosta won a $11.7 million, five-year Autism Center of Excellence grant from the National ...

Yet government algorithms are flagging for potential removal any text containing targeted words, including “racial,” “equity,” “female,” and “women.” Clinical guidance for suicide ...

Sliding scale insulin therapy involves following a chart of insulin dosages. A doctor will help a person with diabetes create this chart based on factors like how their body responds to insulin ...

Isaac Newton - isn't he the guy who discovered gravity? Great! So, what's gravity? Aaaah, gravity is the force that makes objects fall towards the ground. And, without gravity, we'd all float!

Hey gals, how’s it going? And before all the guys get upset, know that today — Thursday, Feb. 13 — is Galentine’s Day. But if you identify as male, we’ll let that slide here, so stick around and keep ...

Hundreds of Wordle puzzles have passed since the game was first unleashed onto the world, and there's now a burgeoning repository of words that now cannot be used for any future Wordle puzzles. If you ...

Background It is uncertain whether mechanical thrombectomy (MT) increases the probability of a good outcome (modified Rankin Scale (mRS) 0–2 ... Mean age, sex, hypertension, and initial NIHSS scores ...

Through the blog, we want to engage current Stroke readers, as well as medical students, residents, and fellows interested in cerebrovascular disease; in other words, the future leaders of the field ...