Nursing times
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This guided learning unit outlines how national guidelines can support the assessment of bowel function. It discusses the prevalence of bowel disorders, the tools used to collect data for assessment and outlines how to carry out a patient assessment.
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This article outlines an initiative to reduce length of stay for stroke patients within an acute hospital and to facilitate earlier transfer of care. Existing care provision was remodelled and expanded to deliver stroke care to patients within a community bed-based intermediate care facility or intermediate care at home. This new model of care has improved the delivery of rehabilitation through alternative and innovative ways of addressing service delivery that meet the needs of the patients.