Fast Facts for Stroke Care Nursing: An Expert Care Guide
Fast Facts for Stroke Care Nursing: An Expert Care Guide
Editor/Author
Morrison, Kathy
Publication Year: 2018
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Single-User Purchase Price:
$35.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$52.50
ISBN: 978-0-82-615826-0
Category: Health & Medicine - Nursing
Image Count:
29
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Featuring diagnostic tests, cutting-edge treatments, and standards for best practice, Fast Facts for Stroke Care Nursing, Second Edition distills the lengthy and often complex national stroke care guidelines into a clear, easily digestible format.
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Linda Littlejohns, MSN, RN, FAAN, SCRN, CNRN
- Preface
- Part I: Foundations of Stroke Care
- 1. Stroke Care Evolution: We've Come a Long Way
- 2. Basic Cerebrovascular Anatomy
- 3. Stroke Types
- 4. Physiology of Stroke
- 5. Associated Stroke Disorders
- 6. Stroke Diagnostics
- 7. Neurologic and Functional Assessment and Severity Scores
- Part II: Saving the Penumbra
- 8. Acute Stroke Interventions
- 9. Secondary Prevention Interventions
- Part III: Key Elements of Stroke Care
- 10. Prehospital and Emergency Department
- 11. In the Stroke Unit and the Intensive Care Unit
- 12. Patient and Family as Members of the Team and Transitions From Acute Care
- Part IV: Postacute Care Essentials
- 13. Rehabilitative Care
- 14. Secondary Prevention: Risk-Factor Control
- Part V: Primary Prevention
- 15. Primary Prevention
- Part VI: Evidence-Based Practice
- 16. Connecting Data to Clinical Practice
- Appendix: 50 Neuroscience Terms
- Bibliography