A project was developed to determine the barriers to NIHSS use by the nursing staff, to develop and implement a plan to improve the completion rate, and to evaluate progress as interventions were ...
Half of the patients (51.3%) had a mild stroke (rating of 0-5 on the NIH Stroke Scale [NIHSS]), 32.3% had a stroke of moderate severity (NIHSS rating 6-13) and 16.5% had a severe stroke (NIHSS ...