Nurses Beliefs, Attitudes, and Perception Related to Work in Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation Unit, a qualitative Study Ahmad Mohammad Abedalla Hajaj * Department of Nursing Administration, Qatar Rehabilitation Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar ABSTRACT Objective: This Study aims to explore Nurses beliefs, attitudes and perception related to work in inpatient stroke rehabilitation Unit. Background: Role of the nurses in the rehabilitation process has increased dramatically for last two decades. Many attempts have been done to identify the role of the nurses in the Inpatient stroke rehabilitation units, they concluded that nurses are involved as an essential part of the rehabilitation process, however, their contribution to improving patient's outcomes is poorly understood and refined. Design: hermeneutic phenomenology, qualitative approach. Methods: The data were collected by using a semi-structured interview, using open-ended questions then the major themes Transcribed for thematic analysis. Results: Two Main categories were identified; the experience of nurses in Stroke rehabilitation units and the challenges in nursing contribution in stroke units, and the recommended strategies to enhance the role of the nurses in stroke rehab units. Conclusion/Relevance to clinical practice: The study provided an evidence that nurses believe in themselves as an effective team member in stroke rehabilitation, and they are enjoying while helping patients to recover to allow them to reintegrate and adapt to their new life situations. However, this study showed a lot of obstacles that minimize the contribution of nursing in stroke rehabilitation units. The future nursing rehab role should also be developed to meet the post-discharge needs and the emerging rehabilitation services and technologies, moreover, nurses have to clear and specify their specific bedside care and interventions. Nurses have to adopt new knowledge and competencies in collaboration with other disciplines such as occupational therapies, physical therapy, and speech therapy, to upgrade their assessment and intervention skills that enable the nurses to provide systematic and therapeutic feedback about the patient progress and the proper interventions that needed to reflects that on the functional abilities on discharge. Keywords: Nursing rehabilitation; Stroke; Nursing role; Perception; Inpatient; Qualitative INTRODUCTION Nurses are the largest health care providers in dealing with inpatient stroke rehabilitation, they are playing a major role, and they are involved throughout the stroke pathway [1]. Nurses are considered the essential multidisciplinary team (MDT) members to achieve the outcomes of inpatients stroke rehabilitation [2]. Mostly Nurses provided a supportive environment for inpatient stroke rehabilitation and to collaborate with the rest of MDT to provide therapeutic and holistic care for them, however many studies have demonstrated that nurses rehabilitation role has been described by other MDT member is vague and unclear and even by most of the nurses themselves [3,4]. I n t e r n a t i o n a l J o u r n a l o f P h y s i c a l M e d ic i n e & R e h a b ilit a ti o n ISSN: 2329-9096 International Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Research Article Correspondence to: Ahmad Mohammad Abedalla Hajaj RN, MSN, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Department of Nursing Administration, Qatar Rehabilitation Institute, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar, E-mail: Ahajaj1@hamad.qa Received date: July 20, 2020; Accepted date: August 04, 2020; Published date: August 11, 2020 Citation: Hajaj AMA (2020) Nurses Beliefs, Attitudes, and Perception Related to Work in Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation Unit, a qualitative Study. Int J Phys Med Rehabil. 8: 563. DOI: 10.35248/2329-9096.20.8.563 Copyright: © 2020 Hajaj AMA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Int J Phys Med Rehabil, Vol.8 Iss.5 No:1000563 1