NEUROSCIENCE NURSING

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NEUROSCIENCE NURSING

• CERTIFICATE

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NEUROSCIENCE NURSING Introduction

•  The Decade of the Brain  
• Growth of the interest in Neuroscience
• The field of neuroscience is a multidisciplinary
  area increasing significantly on an international
  level.

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NEUROSCIENCE NURSING

• A Neuroscience Center provides
• intensive, comprehensive, interdisciplinary
  approach
• Today patients have many treatment options and
  can achieve improved functional abilities.

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NEUROSCIENCE NURSINGObjectives

• The neurosciences offer a huge new frontier for
  treatment discoveries of illnesses that were once
  not well understood or treatable.
• Today patients have many treatment options and
  can achieve improved functional abilities.

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NEUROSCIENCE NURSINGObjectives

• Neuro-nurses are taking the lead in the care of
  patients
• ? to treat diseases of the nervous system.

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NEUROSCIENCE NURSINGCompetence

• Neuroscience Department
• nurses ? competent in medical and surgical
  nursing practice.
• opportunity to work in special units
• The Neuroscience Nurse Program is intended to
  orient registered nurses with present clinical
  experience to the specialized profession of
  neuroscience nursing.

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NEUROSCIENCE NURSING Competence

• The topical areas for a variety of nervous system
  disorders that will be approached, include
• Neuroanatomy,
• Neuropathophysiology,
• Epidemiology,
• Diagnostic evaluation,
• Medical and nursing management,
• Investigational therapies
• Patient education.

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Course Descriptions BACHELOR LEVEL

• Introduction to Neuroscience
• Introduction to Clinical Neuroscience
• Neuropharmacology
• Seminars in Neuroscience

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Course DescriptionsMASTER LEVEL

• SAMPLE OF ELECTIVE COURSES
• NEUROSCIENCE PROGRAM
• Behavioural Neurosciences s.s.
• Molecular Neuroscience
• Seminars in Neuroscience

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NEUROSCIENCE NURSINGStudy Program

• The primary goal of the Neuroscience Program
• develop and train neuroscientists with expertise
  in all aspects of modern neurology en
  neurobiology.

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