The care team works quickly to identify the patient’s meningitis type.
Quantum theory explains how you create your life through what you choose to think, then intend and, ultimately, do.
Alert clinicians take immediate steps to eliminate a life threatening epidural hematoma.
Learn about assessment, intervention, and teaching for patients with this progressive debilitating disease.
Many patients face prolonged recovery and permanent disability after a traumatic brain injury. This article reviews appropriate assessment and intervention and highlights family care.
Because of improvements in safety, stents are now the treatment of choice for many patients. Learn about the improvements and your role in patient care.
Commonly confused with SIADH, cerebral salt wasting can result from such neurologic conditions as subarachnoid hemmorrhage, intracranial hemorrhage, ischemic stroke, intracranial surgery, and brain trauma.
How to provide skilled care that stops the damage and helps your patient manage the injury.
Do you routinely instill normal saline solution into endotracheal tubes before suctioning? Use only the Glasgow Coma Scale for neurologic assessment? Evidence on these and other sacred cows of nursing practice might surprise you.
To save this patient, the team must halt cerebral artery vasospasms quickly.
Newborn screening illustrates what can happen when genetic testing converges with ethics and electronic health records
Deep-brain stimulation can make a significant difference in the lives of patients with dystonia.
An update of drug news, including alerts, approvals, and removals.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE! An update of drug news, including alerts, approvals, and removals.
Web Exclusive! An update of drug news, including alerts, approvals, and removals.
An update of drug news, including alerts, approvals, and removals.
An update of drug news, including alerts, approvals, and removals.
An update of drug news, including alerts, approvals and removals.
Web Exclusive! An update of drug news, including alerts, approvals, and removals.
Alzheimer’s disease afflicts not just the person who has it but everyone in that person’s orbit. Learn how to help family members caring for patients with this nursing research.
Author Leah Curtin discusses the ethical issue of short staffing.
This humorous approach will help you take a serious step toward remembering the cranial nerves.
Dolls can work wonders on geriatric dementia patients.
Stroke signs and symptoms vary with the affected blood vessel. Here’s what you need to know when assessing suspected stroke victims.
Is your facility doing enough to help stroke patients survive and regain functional independence? Find out how a national evidence-based initiative helps hospitals deliver better stroke care.
Sudden unresponsiveness, pallor, and low blood pressure raise red flags.
Learn the telltale signs of brain swelling and find out which patients are most at risk.
ANA’s healthy blood pressure campaign targets both consumers and nurses.
Should patients receive neuromuscular blockers while mechanical ventilation is withdrawn?
A type of dialysis, MARS removes toxins and replaces
lost liver functions.
Read this nurse’s remarkable story of devotion and acceptance.
An often-missed diagnosis, this condition may mimic certain types of dementia.
Learn about the types of concussions, assessment, management, and considerations before a child returns to play.
A thoroughly rational approach to the most frightening of seizures.
Learn more about this rare but dangerous condition.
When you administer paternal and enteral phenytoin (Dilantin), make sure your patient stays free from seizures and drug toxicity.
Patients with traumatic brain injuries can suffer from this syndrome for months or even years after injury.
Home health nurses play a vital role in helping patients recover from stroke
ANA’s position statement on thimerosol-containing vaccines emphasizes a precautionary approach.
Often difficult to detect, primary insufficiency can flare into a life-threatening crisis. Learn how to identify the signs and symptoms of both chronic and acute insufficiency.
This year continues our series from the Oncology Nursing Society on managing cancer-related symptoms.
The latest in a series of articles on managing cancer-related symptoms from the Oncology Nursing Society.
The latest in a series of articles on managing cancer-related symptoms from the Oncology Nursing Society.
For a postoperative laminectomy patient, sudden left-sided weakness and sensation loss warrant a STAT return to the OR.
Delirium affects 30% to 40% of hospitalized older adults but often goes unrecognized. This article discussed its pathophysiology and risk factors, assessment techniques, and preventative strategies.
Colin, age 65, can’t stop moving his legs in bed. He feels pin pricks in them and sometimes even a sensation of worms crawling inside them.
The team scrambles to save a patient with diabetes.
Awaken patients with sleep apnea to the danger of their condition.
Nursing Strategies to Improve Pain Care in Veterans and Military Personnel
The swift response of the healthcare team helps a patient avoid the most devastating effects of a stroke.
Rising intracranial pressure calls for fast action.
The rapid response team makes all the right moves when a patient experiences neck swelling and difficulty swallowing after an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.
The rapid response team works quickly to try to prevent fetal injury.
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You can help save lives by learning how stroke symptoms and risk factors differ in women and men.
This minimally invasive approach provides an unobstructed view of nearly all cardiac structures.
Learn how to detect and manage pain in patients who may not respond to pain in expected ways.
Learn how to care for patients whose seizures reflect psychological disturbances.
Although seizures are scary for the child, parents, and bystanders, most pediatric seizures can be controlled or eliminated.
The author takes the reader on her step-by-step journey that resulted in a change in practice.
Move over, Glasgow. There’s a new coma scoring tool in town.
Learn how one unit implemented their project, including outcomes and how to overcome barriers.
Neurogenic shock must be diagnosed and treated early to limit the effects of hypotension and bradycardia and restore adequate tissue oxygenation.
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