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Education Atlas & Resources
General Resource Listings
Ontario Professional Stroke Education Atlas
As part of the Ontario Stroke System, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario has worked with content experts across the province to develop educational resources and facilitate educational opportunities for stroke care providers. It has compiled a listing of resources in its
 Ontario Professional Education Atlas PDF (currently being updated)
Ontario Professional Stroke Education Resources
Click here
National Stroke Education Resources
To view, click here
To order any of the Professional Education Atlas items please order through csor@hsf.on.ca, call 416-489-7111, extension 389 or click here.
Best Practice Recommendations and Guidelines
Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care (Canadian Stroke Strategy, 2010)
This information will be of interest to front-line staff caring for stroke patients, program leaders, administrators, planners and funders. Click here.
Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care: 2008 Toolkit
This resource is designed to help regions/networks to introduce the Best Practice Recommendations and educate staff about the recommendations. The Toolkit complements the Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care: 2008 Resource Manual. The 2010 Toolkit is under development.
Toolkit Overview
Presentation Overview
Web resource List
Introductory Presentation
Public Awareness and Education
Prevention of Stroke
Hyperacute Stroke Management
Acute Care
Rehabilitation and Community Reintegration
Selected Topics
Gap Analysis Tool: Public Awareness and Education
Gap Analysis Tool: Prevention of Stroke
Gap Analysis Tool: Hyperacute Management
Gap Analysis Tool: Acute Care
Gap Analysis Tool: Rehabilitation and Community Reintegration
Gap Analysis Tool: Selected Topics
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Statements and Guidelines, click here
Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Canadian Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dyslipidemia, Atrial Fibrillation and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in the Adult-2009 Recommendations, click here
Canadian Continence Foundation-Clinical Practice Guidelines for Adults, click here
Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA) Clincial Practice Guidelines, click here
Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHEP), click here
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Urinary Continence Management of Stroke Survivors in Acute and Rehabilitation Settings, click here
Consensus Panel on the stroke Rehabilitation System "Time is Function", click here
European Stroke Organization-Guidelines for Stroke Management, click here
Guidelines for Community Based Exercise Programs for People with Stroke
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Clinical Guidelines, click here
National Stroke Foundation-Australia Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management, click here
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario Nursing Best Practice Guidelines, click here
Royal College of Physicians of Londo National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke, click here
Scottish Intercollegiat Guidelines Network, click here
Best Practice Resources
Health Promotion and Prevention
Connecting the Dots: A Handbook for Chronic Disease Prevention Through Community Engagement (Health Nexus, 2011). This handbook is for health professionals, health promoters/ educators, and community groups/organizations who want to work across sectors and with multiple levels to leverage their joint potential to prevent chronic disease in their communities. Click here to view the handbook and case examples.
Secondary Prevention Best Practice Workshop Tool Kit: Preventing Strokes One at a Time. To view click here. This tool kit is designed to support the implementation of the Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care for prevention. The tool kit provides foundational knowledge required to care for patients who have recently had a stroke or TIA or have been identified as being at high risk. The tool kit includes an overview and administrative tools for educators, a series of PowerPoint presentations with speakers' notes, and a number of handouts.
Guidelines for Healthy Food Selection at Meetings and Events
Co-branded by the Cardiac Care Network and Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario
click here
Stroke Signs & Symptoms Video. HSFO Stroke Awareness Campaign (as seen on TV). Click here.
Obesity and the Healthcare Provider Resource Catalogue, updated October 2009
Resource Catalogue, 2009
CHEP Recommendations (Canadian Hypertension Education Program)
www.hypertension.ca
Stroke Prevention: High Blood Pressure & Sodium (salt). Why You Should Watch Both
To view, click here
Sodium Resources
Reducing the amount of sodium taken each day lowers your blood pressure. www.sodium101.ca
To view the sodium brochure and poster, please click below:
 Sodium brochure
Sodium poster
Aboriginal Videos: "As the Rivers Flow: Brain Attack" and "Heartbeat of the Anishnawbe Nation" utilize aboriginal culture and tradition to describes the pathophysiology and the signs and symptoms of stroke. To view the videos, click here. To order videos Click here.
Self Management Tool Kit: A Resource for Healthcare Providers. The purpose of this site is to allow healthcare providers to quickly learn the basics of helping patients be better self-managers of their health care. Contains easy to use tools and video clips. Click here.
Heart and Stroke Foundation Prof Ed Stroke Prevention Resources. Click here.
Health Nexus
www.healthnexus.ca
2012 Canadian Smoking Cessation Clinical Guidelines
To view these guidelines click here
Pre-Hospital
Educational Workshop for Emergency Medical Services Care of Suspected Acute Stroke Patients (Canadian Stroke Strategy) A Resource for Implementation of Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke: Emergency Medical Services Management of Suspected Stroke Patients. This resource is comprised of two components: Core content that can be integrated into educational materials and a comprehensive workshop package. Click here.
Acute
Faaast FAQ's for Stroke Nurses (print, 2008)
A written resource targeted for nurses that reviews pertinent information related to the recognition, prevention, management and recovery from stroke. For more information or to obtain copies, call 1-888-HSF-INFO (1-88-473-4636). Available in English and French.
Dysphagia Management Resources. A collection of resources related to best practices, screening, managaement addressing both research and education. Click here.
National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS). A three-hour workshop developed to train front line staff to perform the National Institutes of health Stroke Scale, to provide practice with simulated patients and to use simulations on the training DVD to assess interrater reliability. Click here.
Canadian Neurological Scale (CNS): The CNS is a validated and recommended tool for assessing and monitoring the neurological status of stroke clients. The tools can help you offer a falf day CNS workshop in your organization.Click here to access tools. Please note that Southeastern Ontario uses the assessment card found here.
A Guide to the Implementation of Stroke Unit Care: This resources supports the Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care in the acute care setting and inpatient rehabilitation. It provides guidance for the establishment of new stroke units and the enhancement of exising stroke untis to provide optimal services and processess of care for stroke patients. Click here.
Stroke Pocket Cards
The following FREE stroke pocket cards are available to order through the Heart and Stroke Inventory: csor@hsf.on.ca or 416-489-7111 x389. You can review the cards below. The "Common Symptoms" and "Cranial Nerve" cards are combined on one card. Please note that the Canadian Neurological Stroke Strategy (CNS) for Southeastern Ontario card must be ordered from campbelc@kgh.kari.net and not through Heart and Stroke. The names of the cards for ordering purposes are:
Types of Stroke Card Oct 2005.pdf
Stroke Continence Care: Self-learning Portal: This online self-learning portal is intended to support the implementation of "Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Urinary Continence Management of Stroke Survivors in Acute and Rehabilitation settings. Click here.
Interprofessional Learning Objectives for Stroke Care. These are learning objectives related to stroke care across 16 key learning areas and relevant to eight regulated health disciplines. Click here.
Rehabilitation
Stroke Rehab Outcome Measures Tool Box
To view the presentations from at the 2009 Stroke Collaborative:
Many Paths Lead to Best Practice for Stroke Rehabilitation Outcome Measures, please click here
StrokEngine Click here.
Website designed to deliver the latest evidence on rehabilitation research
Modifying the Home after Stroke
Grey Bruce District Stroke Centre, July, 2005
This professional resource manual is designed for stroke rehab therapists who assist stroke survivors and caregivers to adapt the home environment after stroke
Driving Fact Sheet For Healthcare Professionals. Click Here.
Stroke Rehabilitation Resource Guide
Stroke Rehabilitation Resource Guide: The intent of the Stroke Rehabilitation Resource Guide is to enable stroke care providers seeking information related to the rehabilitation of the stroke survivor to access that information, in a user-friendly format, on the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario's Professional Education website. Users are encouraged to contribute additional available resources for inclusion in this Guide by emailing css@hsf.on.ca.
Evidence Based Review of Stroke Rehabilitation: A comprehensive, research-based synthesis of stroke rehabilitation. Click here.
Guidelines for Community Based Exercise Programs for People with Stroke: These Guidelines are intended to help exercise providers deliver safe and effective exercise programs to stroke survivors in a variety of community and other settings. Supporting this document is the Guide for Choosing a Community Exercise Program for People with Stroke. This Guide will assist people with stroke and their families in selecting a safe and effective exercise program in the community. Included in the brochure is a checklist to aid in assessing exercise programs as well as other helpful tips.
Click here for Guidelines
Click here for Brochure
The Aphasia Institute
www.aphasia.ca
Community and Long Term Care
Tips and Tools for Everyday Living: A Guide for Stroke Caregivers (2010)
A resource designed to provide the practical knowledge and skills needed by the people who provide care, day in and day out, to the many thousands of stroke survivors living in Ontario. Many of these caregivers are visiting people in their homes, others are providing care in long-term care facilities and still others are working in day programs and other community settings. Click here to view the Guide
"The Brain, The Body and You" Workshop Series
"The Brain, The Body and You" pilot project report and full education program is now available on the Heart and Stroke Profed website. Click here to access.
This 5-session interprofessional, continuing education workshop series is designed for regulated and unregulated frontline care providers caring for stroke survivors and other complex client populations in the community, long-term care and other care settings. This continuing education program can be easily individualized by selecting the particular module(s) needed to meet the identified learning needs. It may be offered within existing academic settings or in other educational settings such as the workplace. The 5 modules are each 4 hours in length. The module topics include:
- Stroke Care - Prevention to Life After a Stroke
- Continence Care
- Mobility
- Nutrition, Swallowing, Feeding and Hydration
- Communication and Behaviour
This program is based on the "Tips and Tools for Everyday Living: A Guide for Stroke Caregivers" (HSFO, 2002) and has been made available through a collaborative two-year pilot project involving St. Lawrence College, School of Health Sciences, Kingston, Ontario and the Stroke Network of Southeastern Ontario with funding from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Ontario Stroke System. To find out more about the pilot project, please click here.
Here in Southeastern Ontario, "The Brain, The Body and You" program will continue to be offered regularly through St. Lawrence College, Kingston with funding support from the Stroke Network of Southeastern Ontario. It is expected that the series will be offered through the College once in the Spring and again in the Fall. Registration announcements will be forthcoming when these program dates are set. Additional requests can be made through St. Lawrence College to:
- Kathleen Kennedy, Professor of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, St. Lawrence College, Kingston (kkennedy@sl.on.ca)
- Sue Saulnier, Regional Stroke Education Coordinator, Stroke Strategy of Southeastern Ontario, Kingston General Hospital (saulnies@kgh.kari.net)
You may use this education program within any existing educational settings or the workplace. For more information on the educational program and the pilot program, please feel free to contact Kathleen Kennedy or Sue Saulnier.
Education Video Series: Tips and Tools for Everyday Living: A Guide for Stroke Caregivers: Putting It Into Practice
Six education videos have been developed by stroke care champions in Southeastern Ontario. These videos are designed to complement popular sections of the Tips and Tools for Everyday Living: A Guide for Stroke Caregivers (2010) and education programs currently underway across Ontario and Canada. Five of these videos are designed for front line staff and one has been developed for family and community education. Also attached is an advertising poster for the video series.
Front Line Healthcare Staff Education Video Series:
- Recognize & React to the Signs & Symptoms of Stroke for Health Care Providers.
- Communication
- Meal Assistance & Hydration
- Cognitive, Perceptual & Behavioural Problems
- Mobility
Family & Community Education:
- Recognize & React to the Signs and Symptoms of Stroke
Educational Posters Available on Loan
These educational posters are available 'on loan' at no cost in Southeastern Ontario for display at your location in Long Term Care. They are available in both wall mount and table top display formats (table top panels can be provided).
The posters have been developed for the education of frontline care providers and are formatted to provide critical learning points in a highly visual way.
The poster topics include (click to preview):
To access posters for display in Southeastern Ontario, please contact Gwen Brown, Regional Stroke Community & LTC Coordinator (Stroke Network of SEO) at 613-549-6666 x6867 or by email at browng2@kgh.kari.net. Please advise Gwen of the length of time you would like the display poster and arrangements can be made to retrieve the poster.
Blood Pressure Tool Kit
This toolkit is designed to assist Personal Support Workers (PSW) and other health care team members to acquire the practical knowledge and skills to support blood pressure management and to build the capacity to work collaboratively with the health care team and resident/client to optimize blood pressure management. This program is meant to be individualized depending on the needs of the learner and in accordance with the employer/client’s guidelines. The Learning Plan is divided into two modules each of which can be used independently of the other (Module #1: The Basics of Blood Pressure & Supporting the Patient and Module #2: How to Take Blood Pressure). The toolkit may be used by educators or as self-learning modules.
The Toolkit Includes:
- Learning Plan
- Module 1 – The Basics of Blood Pressure and Supporting the Patient provides a theoretical overview of blood pressure including hyper- and hypotension, risks for hypertension, impacts of hypertension and role of the care provider.
- Module 1 Case Studies – Three case studies have been developed to support learning in Module 1. Each case study has a participant and a facilitator version. The case study questions are designed to demonstrate achievement of the evaluation criteria.
Case Study #1 Participant
Case Study #1 Facilitator
Case Study #2 Participant
Case Study #2 Facilitator
Case Study #3 Participant
Case Study #3 Facilitator
- Module 2 – How To Take Blood Pressure provides a practical, visual learning tool to introduce care providers to blood pressure measurement.
- Resources – This provides a comprehensive resource listing.
- Evaluation Surveys
Module 1 Online Link
Module 2 Online Link
Module 1 download
Module 2 download
Other Resources
Shared Work-Day & Field Training Stroke Educational Support Program
This professional education stroke fund is designed to facilitate the development of individual or group stroke-specific knowledge, expertise and networking. The Shared Work Experience and Field Training Stroke Education Program application and evaluation forms are listed below.
Alberta Provincial Stroke Strategy (APSS) Here you will find health care provider educational program learning modules and professional education resources. Click here.
Stroke Nursing Training Modules ( Canadian Stroke Network)
The focus of these workshop modules is to compliment the Stroke Best Practice Recommendations and to facilitate nurses’ acquisition of knowledge related to evidence informed practice. There are four interactive modules addressing a component of the stroke care continuum: Prevention of Stroke, Hyperacute Stroke Management, Acute Inpatient Stroke Care, Stroke Rehabilitation and Community Re-integration. Each module contains a power point slide deck, a Facilitators Guide and a Participant Workbook. Click here.
Aphasia Institute Professional Training Opportunities 2011
Newsletters
National Stroke Nursing Council Newsletter:
The National Stroke Nursing Council was established in late 2005 with the support of the Canadian Stroke Network to promote leadership, communication, advocacy, education and nursing research in the field of stroke. The Council works to build understanding of the critical role of Canadian stroke nurses, to give a voice to experiences on the frontline and to support the vision of the Canadian Stroke Strategy. To view newletter click here.
Canadian Stroke Network: BRAINwaves Newsletters. To view the BRAINwaves on the web c lick here
Interprofessional Collaboration
A National Interprofessional Competency Framework (Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaboration, 2010). Click here.
Interprofessional Care: A Blueprint for Action in Ontario (HealthForce Ontario, 2007). Click here.
HealthForce Ontario Interprofessional Care. Click here.
Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice (OIEP), Queen's University, Kingston Ontario. Click here.
Centre for Interprofessional Education, University of Toronto. Click here.
Office of Interprofessional Health Education and Research, University of Western Ontario. Click here.
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