Nursing Care Related to the Sensory and Neurological Systems MD0919

DEVELOPMENT
ADMINISTRATION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
LESSON 1
	Section I. INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL SENSES
		1-1. THE SPECIAL SENSES
		1-2. SMELL
		1-3. TASTE
		1-4. VISION
		1-5. HEARING
		1-6. EQUILIBRIUM
	Section II. ASSESSMENT
		1-7. EXAMINATION OF THE EYE
		1-8. ASSESSING SYMPTOMS
		1-9. EXAMINATION OF THE EAR
		1-10. AUDIOMETRY
		1-11. ASSESSING SYMPTOMS
	Section III. TREATMENTS AND PROCEDURES
		1-12. PRECAUTIONS FOR THE EYES
		1-13. INSTILLING EYE DROPS OR OINTMENTS
		1-14. IRRIGATING THE EYE
		1-15. APPLYING EYE DRESSINGS
		1-16. INSTILLING EAR DROPS
		1-17. IRRIGATING THE EAR
	Section IV. DISORDERS OF THE EYE
		1-18. VISUAL DEFECTS
		1-19. CONJUNCTIVITIS
		1-20. DETACHED RETINA
		1-21. PREOPERATIVE NURSING CARE OF THE PATIENT UNDERGOING OPHTHALMIC SURGERY
		1-22. POSTOPERATIVE NURSING CARE OF THE PATIENT UNDERGOING OPHTHALMIC SURGERY
		1-23. NURSING CARE OF THE PATIENT WITH VISION LOSS
	Section V. DISORDERS OF THE EAR
		1-24. HEARING LOSS
		1-25. IMPACTED CERUMEN (EARWAX)
		1-26. FOREIGN BODY
		1-27. OTITIS MEDIA
		1-28. CONCLUSION
	EXERCISES
	SOLUTIONS
LESSON 2
	Section I. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
		2-1. INTRODUCTION
		2-2. THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
		2-3. THE BRAIN
		2-4. THE SPINAL CORD
		2-5. THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
		2-6. THE CRANIAL NERVES
		2-7. THE SPINAL NERVES
		2-8. NERVE ACTION
		2-9. REFLEX ARC
		2-10. THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
	Section II. NEUROLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
		2-11. INTRODUCTION
		2-12. VITAL SIGNS
		2-13. MENTAL STATUS
		2-14. SENSORY FUNCTION
		2-15. MOTOR FUNCTION
		2-16. LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS
	Section III. DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES
		2-17. SKULL X-RAYS
		2-18. LUMBAR PUNCTURE
		2-19. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM
		2-20. BRAIN SCAN
		2-21. CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY
	Section IV. CARE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS PATIENT
		2-22. GENERAL
		2-23. AIRWAY AND BREATHING
		2-24. NUTRITIONAL NEEDS
		2-25. SKIN CARE
		2-26. ELIMINATION
		2-27. POSITIONING
	Section V. INFECTIOUS NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS
		2-28. INTRODUCTION
		2-29. MENINGITIS
		2-30. ENCEPHALITIS
		2-31. POLIOMYELITIS
		2-32. GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME
	Section VI. DEGENERATIVE NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS
		2-33. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
		2-34. AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS
		2-35. PARKINSON'S DISEASE
		2-36. MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
	Section VII. CRANIAL NERVE DISORDERS
		2-37. BELL'S PALSY
		2-38. TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA
	Section VIII. HEAD AND SPINE INJURIES
		2-39. HEAD INJURIES
		2-40. INCREASED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE
		2-41. SPINAL CORD INJURIES
	Section IX. DISORDERS OF THE BRAIN
		2-42. CEREBRAL VASCULAR ACCIDENT)
		2-43. EPILEPSY
		2-44. BRAIN TUMOR
		2-45. CONCLUSION
	EXERCISES
	SOLUTIONS