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Main description:
The new Seventh Edition of the award-winning classic prepares its users to deliver expert care in this most challenging nursing specialty. It addresses neuroanatomy, assessment, diagnostic evaluation and management of the complete range of neurological disorders for which nurses provide patient care, including trauma, stoke, tumors, seizures, headache, aneurysms, infections, degenerative disorders and features new chapters on neurological critical care and peripheral neuropathies. The new edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect standards of care based on evidence-based practice. It now includes separate pathophysiology sections in each chapter, new resource guides, such as internet sites and professional and patient information sources, key points summaries, evidence-based boxes, and nursing research features.
A companion site with fully-searchable text and image bank is available with purchase of the book.
Contents:
SECTION 1
Neuroscience Nursing: Contemporary Practice
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Care Settings and Transitions in Care
Chapter 3
Ethical Perspectives and End-of-Life Care
SECTION 2
Assessment and Evaluation of Neuroscience Patients
Chapter 5
Overview of Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology
Chapter 6
Diagnostics for Patients with Neurological Disorders
Chapter 7
Comprehensive Neurological Examination
Chapter 8
Neurological Assessment
SECTION 3
General Considerations with Neuroscience Patients
Chapter 9
Nutritional Support for Neuroscience Patients
Chapter 10
Neuroendocrine Disorders in Neuroscience Patients
Chapter 11
Rehabilitation of Patients with Neurological Disorders
Chapter 12
Pharmacological Management of Neuroscience Patients
SECTION 4
Common Management Problems with Neuroscience Patients
Chapter 13
Intracranial Hypertension: Theory and Management of Increased Intracranial Pressure
Chapter 14
Management of Patient Undergoing Neurosurgical Procedures
Chapter 15
Management of Patients with a Depressed Level of Consciousness
SECTION 5
Nursing Management of Patients with Injury to the Neurological System
Chapter 16
Craniocerebral Injuries
Chapter 17
Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries
Chapter 18
Back Pain and Spinal Disorders
Chapter 19
Traumatic Peripheral Nerve Injuries
SECTION 6
Nursing Management of Patients with Neoplasms of the Neurological System
Chapter 20
Brain Tumors
Chapter 21
Spinal Cord Tumors
SECTION 7
Nursing Management of Patients with Cerebrovascular Problems
Chapter 22
Transient Ischemic Attacks and Acute Ischemic Stroke
Chapter 23
Intracerebral Hemorrhagic Stroke
Chapter 24
Cerebral Aneurysms
Chapter 25
Arteriovenous Malformations and Other Cerebrovascular Anomalies
SECTION 8
Nursing Management of Patients with Pain, Seizures, and CNS Infections
Chapter 26
Chronic Pain
Chapter 27
Headaches
Chapter 28
Seizures and Epilepsy
Chapter 29
Infections of the Central Nervous System
SECTION 9
Nursing Management of Patients with Neurodegenerative Diseases
Chapter 30
Alzheimer’s Disease and
Dementias
Chapter 31
Parkinson’s Disease
Chapter 32
Multiple Sclerosis
Chapter 33
Myasthenia Gravis
Chapter 34
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
SECTION 10
Nursing Management of Patients with Peripheral Nerve Diseases
Chapter 35
Peripheral Neuropathies
Chapter 36
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publication date: December, 2013
Pages: None
Weight: 4g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Neurology, Nursing
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