learning Objectives - Describe the nursing management of clients with Neurological disorders. Demonstrate skill in giving nursing care to clients with Neurological disorders .
Hours - 20
Teaching and Learning Activities - Lecture cum discussion Clinical teaching Demonstration of reflexes and use of Glasgow coma scale Simulation Videos and Films Charts
Assessment Methods - Short answer Objective type Essay type Return demonstration
Content of the chapter
a) Assessment Neurological functions
– History
– Physical examination
– Diagnostic evaluation
b) Management of patients with neurologic
dysfunctions
– Altered level of consciousness
– Increased Intracranial pressure
– Intracranial surgery
c) Management of patients with neurological
disorders
– Headache
– Migraine
– Seizures
– Epilepsy
– Status epileptics
– Cerebrovascular disorder – CVA
– Neurological trauma – Head, brain, spinal
cord, subdural and extradural hematoma
– Neurologic infection
• Meningitis
• Brain abscess
• Encephalitis
– Degenerative disorders
• Multiple sclerosis
• Myasthenia gravis
• Guillain – Barre syndrome
• Parkinsonism
• Alzheimer disease
– Neuralgia
– Bell’s Palsy
– Peripheral neuropathies
– Brain and spinal cord tumors
– Huntington’s disease
– Muscular Dystrophies
– Herniation of the intervertebral disc
d) Alternate therapies
e) Drugs used in treatment of neurological
disorders