Feasibility of a nursing rehabilitation guideline for patients with stroke: evaluating the use by nurses.

Purpose: To determine the feasibility of the Clinical Nursing Rehabilitation Stroke-guideline (CNRS-guideline) in the care of stroke patients in terms of the experiences, views and attitudes of nurses towards the guideline and their adoption of the guideline and how often the recommendations were used.

Method: A four phase cross sectional design was used. Demographic data were collected from nurses (n=30) and patients (n=105).