Editorial Note

Neuroscience nursing is for caring people with a variety of neurological conditions and facing multiple diseases throughout their lifetime and in all health care issues. There are numerous specialties encompassed within this field of practice including (but not limited to) the following:

• Neurosurgery;

• Neuro trauma, e.g. brain and spinal cord injury;

• Neuroscience critical/ intensive care;

• Long- term neurological conditions, e.g. stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy;

• Life- limiting neurological conditions, e.g. motor neuron disorder, Huntingdon’s disease.

Understanding long- term neurological conditions utmost people with long- term neurological conditions live active and fulfilling lives and are watched for out of sanitarium, but may need admission to medical center for reasons that may or may not be related to their disorder. Numerous people will be supported by a specialist nurse and nursing team during their medical center stay, it has been found that when people are admitted to hospital for reasons other than their neurological condition, their neurological requirements aren't always met. Caring for people with a neurological condition is everyone’s responsibility and nurses and health care professionals need to insure that they've the knowledge and expertise to be suitable to meet their requirements. Organizations have been working on developing learning accoutrements to facilitate the professional development of the nursing workforce.

It’s delicate for patients to lose the capability to be independent, so there are a lot of struggles to face. Nurses are helping them through that process by concentrating on whatever strengths the patients still have; Neuro nurses are a special group. They don’t concentrate on deficits. They concentrate on how they can help patients to have some quality of life and reach their aims as individualities.

In contrast with other care operations where patients stay only long enough to have surgery, for sample, and are also discharged, neurological cases characteristically have a lifelong complaint that requires regular follow ups. There’s a lot of patient engagement and connection with the staff, Nurses understand this and have a sense that they belong in the patient’s life.

Communicating with patients over the long term becomes especially important; a lot of patients have some trouble communicating. Occasionally the wrong word comes out, or their actions are out of ordinary, or they communicate nonverbally. Nurses have to understand what they're saying. Dealing with Patients whose condition varies extensively according to the stage of their illness. The Neuro has a specialized Neuro Palliative Care program aimed at reducing the mental and physical suffering of neurological cases and their families in the trip from opinion of a terminal illness to end of life.

Neuro palliative care is fairly new and not well understood, especially the nursing aspect, Traditional palliative care models began in cancer care and aren't always a good fit for cases with neurological diseases. For representative, a patient is in final stages of a neurological disorder and not actively dying — People can go on for a long time, as in the case of dementia. It’s a ruinous experience for patients and their families. But to qualify for traditional palliative care, they must have a life expectation of lower than three months. Patients are frequently falling through the cracks for a lot of services. Doctors are so well placed to probe neuro palliative care at The Neuro because managing how patients think and communicate and behave is something that The Neuro’s nurses are exceptionally good at caring patients in all their severe conditions.