How a specialist nurse helps patients undergoing deep brain stimulation.
Deep brain stimulation is becoming the most frequently used neurosurgical treatment for patients with complex Parkinson's disease. This paper reports on the creation of a clinical nurse specialist role in a Scottish hospital's movement disorder team to support patients going through this treatment and their families, working with the neuroscience nurses and multidisciplinary team.
Young
Catherine
C
Neurosciences Department, Ninewells Hospital, Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust, Dundee.
Abercrombie
Moira
M
Beattie
Avril
A
D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000451:nursing* / Q000628:therapy*; D013041:Specialties, Nursing / Q000379:methods*