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.

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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