Use the steps of the nursing process to care for patients who are receiving drug therapy for anxiety and insomnia.
Nurse’s role in the pharmacological management of epilepsy.
Signs and symptoms of specific types of epilepsy. Pharmacotherapy of epilepsy.
Identify the degenerative disorders that are most common for the Central Nervous System.
Review the neurochemical bases for Depression, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson and ADHD, focusing on the pharmacological treatment, dopamine, and acetylcholine roles in the brain.
Therapy for epileptic seizures and goals of treatment, drugs used, mechanism of action, and dosage, including the precautions for special populations like children and geriatrics.
References Virginia Poole Arcangelo, Andrew M. Peterson, Veronica Wilbur, & Jennifer A. Reinhold. (2017). Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice : A Practical Approach: Vol. 4th edition. Wolters Kluwer Health.