Title: Apply the nursing process for a client with a disorder of the nervous system.
Course: Practical Nursing III (14052-III) > Section: Applying the Nursing Process to the Adult Client

Application should include

- identifying factors in the prevention of nervous system disorders
- describing steps in nursing assessment
- nursing management in diagnostic tests
- using skills involved with related procedures
- using nursing management of selected disorders
- describing diagnoses and plan of care
- identifying pharmacological management and dietary plan
- providing educational guidelines.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What factors are related to the prevention of nervous system disorders that lead to vascular disease?
- How would one describe the steps included in the nursing assessment, such as evaluation of the level of consciousness, orientation, speech patterns, pupils, and vital signs?
- What is the purpose of and the nursing management for selected diagnostic tests, such as
  - neurological examinations
  - computerized tomography
  - radiology
  - myelogram
  - lumbar puncture
  - electroencephalogram?
- What are nursing diagnoses related to the client with a disorder of the nervous system?
- How would one develop a plan of care to meet the biological, psychological, social, and cultural needs of the client?
- How would one integrate pharmacological agents, such as
  - anticonvulsants
  - antipsychotics
  - cerebral stimulants
  - tranquilizers
  - cytotoxic drugs
  - sedatives
  - hypnotic analgesics
  - osmotic diuretics
  - narcotic antagonists
  - narcotic and non-narcotic

in the management of the client?

- How would one incorporate dietary principles, such as dysphagia diet, adequate hydration, and protein supplements, in the care of the client?
- What educational guidelines would one provide that are related to bowel training, exercises, sexual function, use of walkers, canes, wheelchairs, and crutches, and monitoring of drug administration?