1. NEUROSCIENCE NURSING CERTIFICATE

2. NEUROSCIENCE NURSING Introduction « The Decade of the Brain » Growth of the interest in Neuroscience The field of neuroscience is a multidisciplinary area increasing significantly on an international level.

4. NEUROSCIENCE NURSING A Neuroscience Center provides –intensive, comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach –Today patients have many treatment options and can achieve improved functional abilities.

6. NEUROSCIENCE NURSING Objectives The neurosciences offer a huge new frontier for treatment discoveries of illnesses that were once not well understood or treatable. Today patients have many treatment options and can achieve improved functional abilities.

8. NEUROSCIENCE NURSING Objectives Neuro-nurses are taking the lead in the care of patients  to treat diseases of the nervous system.

9. A nurse leaving a sub-depot on her daily round of visits (1918)

10. NEUROSCIENCE NURSING Competence Neuroscience Department –nurses  competent in medical and surgical nursing practice. –opportunity to work in special units –The Neuroscience Nurse Program is intended to orient registered nurses with present clinical experience to the specialized profession of neuroscience nursing.

11. NEUROSCIENCE NURSING Competence The topical areas for a variety of nervous system disorders that will be approached, include: Neuroanatomy, Neuropathophysiology, Epidemiology, Diagnostic evaluation, Medical and nursing management, Investigational therapies Patient education.

12. Course Descriptions BACHELOR LEVEL Introduction to Neuroscience Introduction to Clinical Neuroscience Neuropharmacology Seminars in Neuroscience

14. Course Descriptions MASTER LEVEL SAMPLE OF ELECTIVE COURSES NEUROSCIENCE PROGRAM  Behavioural Neurosciences s.s.  Molecular Neuroscience  Seminars in Neuroscience

15. NEUROSCIENCE NURSING Study Program The primary goal of the Neuroscience Program – develop and train neuroscientists with expertise in all aspects of modern neurology en neurobiology.

16. Lawrence C. Earle oil on canvas