Strategies nurses use when caring for patients with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury who have cognitive impairments.

ABSTRACT:

Aims and objectives

Adults with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) may have immediate and chronic cognitive impairments that require use of specific nursing strategies. Nurses must be knowledgeable about strategies to use to accommodate these impairments. However, available clinical guidelines and research lack information to direct nonacute nursing management of cognition, limiting guidance for nurses when developing their care plans. The purpose of this study was to investigate strategies nurses use when caring for patients with moderate-to-severe TBI who have cognitive impairments.

Design

Cross-sectional, exploratory study.

Methods

A total of 692 nurses from three hospitals answered the following open-ended question via electronic survey: "Imagine you

SUBMITTER: Oyesanya TO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6800766 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature