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A Team Approach to Effective Management
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Fourth Edition
By
Linda Baddeley, MA RGN, Epilepsy Specialist Nurse, North Staffordshire NHS Trust
Simon Ellis, MA, MB, BChir, MRCP, MD, Consultant Neurologist and Senior Lecturer, North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary and Keele University; Former
Clinical Lecturer in Neurology, University of Oxford; Former Chief Resident in Neurology, Mount Sinai Medical Centre, NY, USA
Description
Written by a Specialist Nurse with extensive experience in co-ordinating treatment plans for epilepsy and a Consultant Neurologist, this
practical guide is an essential purchase for every nurse practitioner, practice nurse and other members of the primary healthcare team.
Audience
Practice Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Specialist Epilepsy Nurses
Contents
1) An Introduction to Epilepsy: the Condition and the Care
2) The development of epilepsy services
3) Implications for lifestyle
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Exploring the nurse's role in epilepsy care
5) The anatomy and physiology
6) The diagnosis, classification and investigations
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Special issues in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy
8) Treatments used in the care of people with epilepsy
9) Epilepsy in
children and adolescents
10) Sexuality and Planing a family
11) Epilepsy in the elderly
12) Epilepsy in the learning disabled
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Audit.
14) Appendices.
1. Use of rectal diazepam
2. Information required by Neurologist at out patient appointment
3. Information
required by EEG department
4. Sample patient record card
5. Epilepsy profile record sheet
6. Questions and answers - Informing
the patient
7. First aid during seizures
8. Useful addresses
9. Bibliography
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Paperback, 224 pages, publication date: MAY-2001
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-4954-4
ISBN-10: 0-7506-4954-2
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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Last update: 30 Oct 2009
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