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Description
This unique book looks at nursing care for both operative and nonoperative neurological disorders in children. Written by leading authors across the world, mostly Registered Nurses, Advanced Practice Nurses, as well as Physican Assistants, pediatric neurosurgeons, and neurologists, ensuring international contributions as well as a comprehensive approach.
This book presents an overview of Neonatal, Infant, and Pediatric Neurologic Assessment, the common Neurosurgical Interventions, seizures, epilepsy and even looks at Ethics and Palliative Care. Each chapter follows a specific format providing an in-depth knowledge of different pathologies such as Scoliosis, Nerve Injury, or Chiari Malformation, in a concise easy-to-read format.
It is designed for professionals and students who care for children with neurological diseases process or help manage these children in the inpatient or ambulatory setting. The format for all chapters include key elements for the reader to understand the patient disorder, learn how to perform focused assessments, as well as anticipate and prevent complications. In addition to nursing care of the patient, each chapter include a section on patient and family education both during the hospitalization and in the ambulatory setting. Case scenarios, with videos, include analysis to understand what to expect, anticipate, or monitor and why. In addition, the reader learns when to contact a provider and eases the way to teach patients or parents during hospitalization or discharge.
1.Neurologic Assessment Neonatal, Infant, Toddler and Pediatric.- 2. Transport of the Critically Ill Neurologic Patient.- 3.Intracranial Pressure Monitoring in Pediatric Neurosurgery: Nursing Management and Care.- 4.Neuroimaging Basics.- 5.Hydrocephalus.- 6.Craniosynostosis.- 7. Chiari Malformation.- 8.Spinal Dysraphism.- 9.Skeletal Dysplasia.- 10.Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.- 11.Traumatic Brain Injury.- 12.Traumatic Spine Injury.- 13.Pediatric Peripheral Nerve & Brachial Plexus Injuries.- 14.Pediatric Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors.- 15.Pediatric Neurovascular Disease.- 16.Seizures and Epilepsy.- 17.Spasticity.- 18.Infections of the Central Nervous System.- 19. Neuro-Inflammatory Disorders.- 20.Determination of Neurologic Death in Infants and Children.- 21.Ethics and Palliative Care.
Kentlee Battick MSN, RN, CNL, CNRN is the Neuroscience Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) for Johns Hopkins All Children s Hospital (JHACH), for the past 12 years, and a total of 21 years as a Registered Nurse. JHACH is a 259-bed hospital with 43 pediatric medical and surgical subspecialists including a 6 bed Seizure Monitoring Unit. As the CNL for Neuroscience patients, she is providing direct clinical leadership at the point of care, across the patient s stay from admission to discharge collaborating the both the health care team and the patients/families. These efforts advance care delivery through evidence, process improvement and case reviews to target optimal outcomes. Kentlee is able to enhance the continuity of care as patients move among different areas of the hospital serving as a vital resource for the family and all the members of the health care team. One of her projects was creating the very 1st multidisciplinary neuroscience specific nursing education series which includes lectures from Neurosurgeons, Neurologists, EEG technicians, Ketogenic dietician, rehab medicine and neuropsychology. She has had multiple quality improvement projects that have assisted in improving the care of neuroscience patients. Kentlee works closely with our Epileptology and Neurosurgery providers to merge needs and goals for both the care team, patient and family to provide the best outcome possible.
Nir Shimony MD, is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University. He serves as a pediatric neurosurgeon at St. Jude Children s Research Hospital and Le Bonheur Children s Hospital, and as a neurosurgeon at Semmes-Murphey Clinic in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Dr. Shimony is an early-career neurosurgeon with extensive experience as both a principal investigator and co-investigator in clinical research. His work includes leadership and participation in randomized controlled trials as well as large retrospective database studies. His primary clinical and research interests focus on pediatric neurosurgery, neuro-oncology, epilepsy surgery, and congenital malformations.
