Unit 6: Neurological

These are the article for required reading.  You can click on the links and print off the articles or go to the library and copy the articles on reserve. Each of these links have a PDF link under Article Tools to the right of the page for shorter amount of pages to print.  If you have trouble, either use the emailme link or look at the Meebo chat to see if Mrs. Graham is online. Unit starts before break and after...check your schedules.

1. Rank, Wendi CNRN, CRNP. Simplifying neurologic assessment. Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!. 8(2):15-19, March/April 2010.
http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=N&PAGE=fulltext&AN=00152258-201003000-00005&D=yrovftj


 2. BONNER, SUZANNE M. RN, CMSRN, BSN.  Heading off concussion complications. Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!. 6(2):22-26, March/April 2008.
http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=N&PAGE=fulltext&AN=00152258-200803000-00006&D=yrovftj

3. Bonner, Suzanne M. RN, CMSRN, BSN. My aching back: Relieving the pain of herniated disk. Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!. 6(1):19-30, January/February 2008. Questions included.
http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=N&PAGE=fulltext&AN=00152258-200801000-00005&D=yrovftj


4. PALMIERI, RACHEL L. RN, C, ANP, MSN  Piecing together the puzzle of Guillain-Barre syndrome. Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!. 5(6):52-55, November/December 2007.
http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=N&PAGE=fulltext&AN=00152258-200711000-00010&D=yrovfti

5. A. McCARRON, KIM RN, MS The shakedown on Parkinson's disease.  Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!. 4(6):40-49, November/December 2006.
http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=N&PAGE=fulltext&AN=00152258-200611000-00011&D=yrovfth

5B. Questions: ONLY NEED PAGE 50. The shakedown on Parkinson's disease. Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!. 4(6):50,62, November/December 2006.
http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=N&PAGE=fulltext&AN=00152258-200611000-00012&D=yrovfth

6. Barker, Ellen. A new weapon to combat stroke. RN 2006 (March):69(3):26-29.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=9&hid=106&sid=eec479b3-ac5d-467a-a36a-0616218ec40c%40sessionmgr114&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=c8h&AN=2009142965

7. MILLER, JULIE RN, CCRN, BSN; ELMORE, SHANE RN, ADN Call a stroke code!!. Nursing. 35(3):58-63, March 2005.
http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=N&PAGE=fulltext&AN=00152193-200503000-00043&D=yrovftg
 
8.  Harvey, Joan RN, MSN, CCRN.  Countering "brain attacks". Nursing Management. 35(8):27-32, August 2004. Includes Questions.
http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=N&PAGE=fulltext&AN=00006247-200408000-00010&D=yrovftg


9. LOWER, JUDITH "SKI RN, CCRN, CNRN, MSN Using pain to assess neurologic response.  Nursing. 33(6):56-57, June 2003.
http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=N&PAGE=fulltext&AN=00152193-200306000-00047&D=yrovftf


10. LOWER, Judith "SKI RN, CCRN, CNRN, MSN Facing neuro assessment fearlessly.  Nursing. 32(2):58-65, February 2002.  Questions included.
http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&NEWS=N&PAGE=fulltext&AN=00152193-200202000-00054&D=yrovfte

Recommended: Last Hours of Living: Practical Advice to Clinicians

Recommended article by Mrs. Sheehan.  "Last Hours of Living: Practical Advice to Clinicians" on Medscape Nursing http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/716463
If you would like to print off the article with all the sections, click on the print this. Also if you want to just read the whole thing without clicking on several web pages, click on the "print this" link.