Neuroscience Nursing

Overview

Delivered in partnership with Beaumont Hospital, this one-year part-time programme offers you the opportunity to apply theory to practice during clinical placements in the areas of neuroscience intensive care, neuromedicine and neurosurgery.

Through this mix of clinical and classroom learning experiences, students will develop as critical and reflective practitioners with the clinical judgement, problem-solving, communication and team skills necessary to care for patients with complex neuroscience conditions.

Learning outcomes

This Neuroscience Nursing programme from Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland will provide you with the skills and knowledge to critically:

• Discuss the advanced nursing management of the neuroscience patient with altered respiratory and cardiovascular status.

• Review and reflect upon the ongoing management and nursing interventions of patients with regard to the following neurological conditions: Cerebrovascular disorders; neuroendocrine disorders; traumatic head injury and intracranial pressure monitoring; and central nervous system infections.  

• Discuss the ongoing management and nursing interventions of patients with specific chronic neurological disorders (e.g. multiple sclerosis, motor neuron disease, myasthenia gravis).

• Discuss the interdisciplinary management of patients in the post-acute phase of a neuroscience illness.  

• Discuss the concept of clinical learning environment learning.

• Discuss the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.