The nurses emphasize that patients at neurocritical care units need physiological function monitoring . Initial patient assessment at the emergency unit is nurses’ responsibility, who should focus the assessment on airways
circulation, breathing and vital signs every 30 minutes and neurological investigation. Therefore, nurses should be
able to recognize the neurological symptoms suggesting a stroke and rapidly analyze the start of the symptoms.
One of the neurological test methods, particularly to assess thrombolytics use, is the stroke scale by the National
Institutes of Health (NHSS)