INTRACRANIAL REGULATION

RNSG 1538

Health Care Concepts 3

Concept- INTRACRANIAL REGULATION

Concept Definition

The processes that affect intracranial compensation and adaptive neurological function

Exemplars

Seizure Disorder

Stroke

Traumatic Brain Injury/Organ Donation/Brain Death.

Post-Concussion Syndrome

Brain Tumor

Meningitis

Hydrocephalus

Parkinson’s Disease

Objectives

  1. Explain the concept of intracranial regulation (including definition, antecedents, and attributes).
  2. Analyze conditions which place a patient at risk for intracranial regulation imbalance.
  3. Identify when intracranial regulation imbalance (negative consequence) is developing or has developed.
  4. Explainthe correlation between Seizure Disorder, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury/Organ Donation/Brain Death, Post-Concussion Syndrome, Brain Tumor, Meningitis, Hydrocephalus, and Parkinson’s Diseaseto the concept of Intracranial Regulation (including compromised antecedents, deficit measurement in attributes, a list of negative consequences, and the interrelated concepts which may be involved).
  5. Identify conditions that place an individual at risk for intracranial regulation imbalance leading to a compromised concept(s) resulting inSeizure Disorder, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury/Organ Donation/Brain Death, Post-Concussion Syndrome, Brain Tumor, Meningitis, Hydrocephalus, and Parkinson’s Disease.
  6. Apply the nursing process with collaborative interventions for individuals experiencingintracranial regulation imbalance includingSeizure Disorder, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury/Organ Donation/Brain Death, Post-Concussion Syndrome, Brain Tumor, Meningitis, Hydrocephalus, and Parkinson’s Disease.

Assignments

  1. Review the Intracranial Regulation Concept Analysis diagram
  2. Readings/Viewings

Giddens, J.F. (2013). Concepts for nursing practice. St. Louis: Elsevier.

  • Chapter 11: Intracranial Regulation

Lewis, S., Dirksen, S., Heitkemper, M. & Bucher, L. (2014). Medical-surgical nursing.

  • St. Louis: Elsevier.
  • Chapter 57: pgs. 1368-1384
  • Chapter 58
  • Chapter 59: pgs. 1419-1437

McKinney, E., James, S., Murray, S., Nelson, K. & Ashwill, J. (2013). Maternal-child

nursing. St. Louis: Elsevier.

  • Chapter 48: pgs. 1280-1283
  • Chapter 52: pgs. 1423-1424; pgs. 1433-1441
  1. Internet

Brain Tumors

Meningitis

Stroke

Traumatic Brain Injury

/watch?v=9Wl4-nNOGJ0

Brain Death

Organ Donation

  1. Complete additional assigned pre-class reading and preparation (see Blackboard for content)

Content Outline:

Concept: Intracranial Regulation

  1. Intracranial regulation
  1. Definition
  2. Exploration of diagram
  3. At risk situations
  1. Assessments
  2. Explore exemplars and their association to concept
  1. Seizure disorder
  2. Stroke
  3. Meningitis
  4. Traumatic brain injury
  5. Post-concussion syndrome
  6. Brain death
  7. Organ donation
  8. Brain Tumor
  9. Hydrocephalus
  10. Parkinson’s disease
  1. Associated nursing process and interventions

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