This award-winning classic provides comprehensive coverage of neurological and neurosurgical nursing and prepares your students for delivering expert care in this challenging specialty. Coverage includes a wide range of clinical topics such as: trauma, stroke, tumors, seizures, headache, aneurysms, infections, degenerative disorders of the neurological system, and much more. New to the Fourth Edition... Six new chapters: / The Continuum of Care and Models of Practice / Clinical Reasoning and Neuroscience Nursing Practice / Pharmacological Management of Neuroscience Patients / Respiratory Management of Neuroscience Patients / Management of Pain / AIDS: Neurological Manifestations and Critical Thinking.