Full Description
This practical guide to diagnostic tests, advanced treatments, medication management, research protocols, and best practice standards is a quick and handy reference for the advanced practice nurse caring for stroke patients. Fast Facts About Stroke Care for the Advanced Practice Nurse serves as an instructive resource for advanced practice providers not specializing in neurology or neurocritical care but who are increasingly called upon to care for patients suffering from stroke while integrating into a multidisciplinary stroke team.
This new book provides foundational information on the anatomy and physiology of the stroke patient, as well as diagnostic and assessment tools and details on treatment and education. In addition, the book provides important information on critical care, pharmacology, end-of-life management, and research, as well as examining the role of the advanced practice provider who is integrating within the core stroke team. Fast Facts About Stroke Care for the Advanced Practice Nurse provides advanced practice nurses with the essential knowledge they will need to successfully care for stroke patients while adapting into their role on the core stroke team.
Key Features:
Reflects the most current standards of the American Heart Association, American Stroke Association, and the leading certifying organizations
Foundational information on stroke care, anatomy, and physiology
Comprehensive review of diagnostic studies and treatments
Information on stroke research protocols, pharmacology, and end-of-life management
Advanced level resource for new and seasoned advanced practice providers
Contents
PART I: Introduction
Chapter 1: The Role of the APP in Stroke Care
PART II: Foundations of Stroke Care
Chapter 2: Stroke Care Evolution
Chapter 3: Advanced Anatomy & Physiology
Chapter 4: Associated Stroke Disorders & Stroke Mimics
PART III: Diagnostics and Assessment
Chapter 5: Neurological and Functional Assessment in Stroke
Chapter 6: Diagnostic Stroke Work-up
PART IV: Diagnostics and Assessment
Chapter 7: Emergency Care: Prehospital and in the Emergency Department
Chapter 8: Endovascular and Surgical Management of Stroke
Chapter 9: ICU Stroke Care
Chapter 10: Critical Care Pharmacology
Chapter 11: Stroke Unit Care
Chapter 12: Telestroke
Chapter 13: End of Life Care
PART V: Education and Research
Chapter 14: Primary and Secondary Stroke Prevention
Chapter 15: Provider and Staff Education and Competence
Chapter 16: Quality Metrics, Data Use and Guidelines
Chapter 17: Stroke Research and the Advanced Practice Provider
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