title: [TREATMENT OF ATTENTION DEFICIT AND HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD): NURSING IMPLICATIONS].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This review aims to know the role of the nurse in ADHD treatment, identifying the most appropriate therapeutic options between nursing interventions and pharmacological treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  In ADHD, the role of the nurse is to respond family needs about the effectiveness of medication, behavior modification treatment and other alternatives. There are family interventions of psychoeducation that assist the child in the recovery process. Through the education for health, the nurse should promote the combination of behavioral therapy and pharmacological as the only one able to improve child's quality of life.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses have a privileged role due to its experience in education for health; this contributes to being a competent agent that provides families essential information about the disease treatment. Spanish schools are lacking a figure that represent health as a relevant subject in the vital process, hence the need of the school nurse.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Luna Delgado
authors.forename: Olalla
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Moriones Jiménez
mesh_terms: D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000451:nursing*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans