University Nursing Leadership Project Outline: CVA Prevention

This leadership project outline focuses on the prevention of Cerebral Vascular Accidents (CVA), also known as strokes, a significant health concern with high prevalence and devastating consequences. The outline emphasizes the crucial role of nurses in prevention, particularly through secondary and primary interventions like promoting healthy lifestyles and identifying risk factors. It highlights the impact of CVA on individuals, families, and communities, including physical disabilities, mental health issues, and financial burdens. The project aims to address challenges related to CVA, such as disability, by reviewing literature on best practices and recommending changes for improved patient outcomes in both hospital and community settings. Stakeholders include patients, medical practitioners, researchers, and the government. The outline details the tasks, resources, and expected outcomes of the project, including creating awareness for change and measuring the impact of interventions. The project aims to reduce the prevalence of CVA and its detrimental effects on society. The outline also references current research to support its recommendations.

Running Head: LEADERSHIP PROJECT OUTLINE ON THE PREVENTION OF CVA
ROLE OF NURSES IN THE PREVENTION OF CEREBRAL VASCULAR ACCIDENT.
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Cerebral Vascular accident (CVA) also known as Stroke is a common disease and highly
prevalent in most of the countries. It occurs when there is blockage in the arteries and the blood
is is not able to reach the brain. After heart disease and cancer, stroke is the third largest killer in
Canada, around 50, 000 strokes occur every year and can cause severe amounts of mental
disability after Alzheimer’s disease (Bodyandhealth.canada.com, 2019). Due to the high rate of
prevalence, it is necessary to look into this topic and it certainly needs some superior medical
intervention.
Cerebral Vascular Accident has quite a number of complications and devastating results
that includes muscle weakness, paralysis, problems with vision, abnormal or lost sensation on
one side of the body, difficulty speaking, confusion, severe headache, loss of balance and
coordination, and dizziness. The most common complication is paralysis or neurological
impairment, which needs to be the highlight of the leadership project outline. The neurological
impairment caused by the blood not being transported to the brain can also cause paralysis that
will stop the functioning of one side of the body. Due to the neurological impairment in people
suffering from stroke, they also suffer from depression and anxiety. Almost, one-third of the
people who suffer from epilepsy and seizures also suffer from depression and anxiety due to the
changes in the brain, as consequences of stroke (Kwon & Park, 2014).
Prevention is the main aim for people with stroke as the diet, obesity, lifestyle diseases
are the main triggers, which can increase the chances of suffering from stroke. Nurses can play a
major role in preventing the prevalence of stroke by helping in the secondary prevention by
spreading awareness in people regarding diet, lifestyle, elimination of tobacco and alcohol. They
can also help in primary intervention by making multidisciplinary groups and provide treatment
and advice. One of the actions could be starting exercise programs for people who are physically

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inactive with diseases like hypertension and obesity. Another plan would be to start programs by
community nurses to identify atrial fibrillation, which is the major cause of stroke that can help
as a pharmacological strategy (Clare, 2017).
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) promotes awareness about the health of
Canadians through leadership, innovation, partnership, and the overall commitment is given to
stroke, they also look after the financial aids (Canada. ca, 2014). Along with the patients even
the medical practitioners, researchers and the government can benefit from this new advances in
combating stroke.
To conclude this leadership project outline, it is to be pointed that CVA is a disease with
high prevalence that needs serious medical intervention and advances. Neurological
complications being the main effects of this disease, it is necessary to look after the
consequences it can cause in deteriorating the society and the people on a large scale.
The outline of the next project that will elaborate on the leadership outline of prevention of
CVA.
 Review of literature: 300-400 words- 1-1/2 pages
 Best practice recommendation: 250-300 words- 1 page
 Stakeholders: 250-300 words- 1 page
 Outline the task and resources: 250-300 words- 1 page
 Expected Outcome: 250 words- 1 page
 Creating an awareness for change: 300 words- 1 page
 Conclusion: 200-250 words- ½ page

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References
Bodyandhealth.canada.com. (2019). Stroke - Canada.com. Retrieved 6 October 2019, from
https://bodyandhealth.canada.com/healthfeature/gethealthfeature/stroke
Canada, H. (2014). Government of Canada. Retrieved October 7, 2019, from
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/healthy-living/your-health/diseases/
stroke.html.
Clare, C.S. (2017). The role of community nurses in stroke prevention. [PDF File]. Retrieved
from
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/74a9/0b8969c4af5ab4fb6b6a9fb2454fe9af23b2.pdf?
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Kwon, O., & Park, S. (2014). Depression and Anxiety in People with Epilepsy. Journal Of
Clinical Neurology, 10(3), 175. doi: 10.3988/jcn.2014.10.3.175