Validate your competency and knowledge with AANN Amplify: A Virtual Symposium. Watch the recording from the Seizure and Epilepsy session with presenters Madona Plueger and Holly Wirth to earn 2 CE contact hours.
The recording from the Anatomy and Assessment session is available for purchase as well (https://apps.aann.org/store/product-details?productId=1029914415).
Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the basic principles of seizure first aid and emergency management, including when and how to administer rescue medications in the acute care setting.
- Identify common anti-seizure medications, their mechanisms of action, and potential side effects.
- Discuss strategies for medication adherence and lifestyle modifications that can improve seizure control.
- Describe the prevalence of drug-resistant epilepsy and its impact on patient quality of life.
- Discuss neurosurgical approaches to epilepsy management.
- Describe the role of the RN caring for patients who have undergone surgical intervention to treat epilepsy.