Continuing Education

Journal of Neuroscience Nursing CE Articles

These journal articles offer one continuing education (CE) contact hour each. Just select the article(s) you wish to read. The articles are listed below by article type (review, research, practice, etc.) and then by patient type (adult or pediatric), practice area (neurosurgery or neurology), and specialty area (stroke, neuromuscular, movement disorder, etc.). You may complete as many articles as you wish, but remember that you will not be able to use the same article twice for CE credit.

Using your Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can open/download a PDF file of any JNN CE article using the links below. After reading the article, return to this page where you will find a link to the article's test in the online testing center. All exams are $15.00.  Please note that JNN Quiz and Puzzle Answers are now located at the JNN Web-Only Resources section of the AANN Web site. JNN Quizzes and Puzzles are not eligible for CE credit unless otherwise specified.

S = These courses can be used towards the 8 hour Stroke team annual educational requirement.

Clinical Area

Title/Issue

Author

Review
Acute Care, Neurology/Neurosurgery, General Neuroscience

Unilateral Neglect: Assessment in Nursing Practice

Volume 40, Issue 3
June 2008

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Jepson
Despain
Keller
Adult, Acute Care, Neurotrauma

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Subsequent Determinants of Quality of Life: A Review of the Literature
Table 1

Volume 39, Issue 5
October 2007

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Petchprapai

Adult, Chronic, Neurology

Invisible and Visible Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis: Which Are More Predictive of Health Distress?

Volume 40, Issue 2
April 2008

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White
White
Russell

Adult, Neurology, Stroke

S

Acute Ischemic Stroke Care Review

Volume 39, Issue 5
October 2007

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Hinkle
General/Neurology The Pharmocological Management of Spasticity

Volume 38, Issue 6
December 2006

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Saulino
Jacobs
Adult, Neurosurgery, Brain Tumors

Craniopharyngiomas

Volume 38, Issue 5
October 2006

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Alvarez

Adult, Neurology, Stroke

 

S

Poststroke Depression Incidence and Risk Factors: An Integrative Literature Review

Supplement to Article (web only)

Volume 38 - Special Issue
September, 2006

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Johnson
Nystrom
Bautista
Gorman

Neurology, Cerebrovascular, Stroke

 

S

Management of Lipid Disorders for Stroke Prevention

Volume 38 - Special Issue
September, 2006

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Fowler
Kelly
Ruh
Johnson-Wells
Adult, Neuroscience, Critical Care Gizmos and Gadgets for the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit

Volume 38, Issue 4
August 2006

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Bader
Practice
General, Teaching/Learning The Neuroscience of Learning

Volume 39, Issue 5
October 2007

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Collins
Adult, Neurology Recognizing Involuntary Emotional Expression Disorder

Volume 39, Issue 4
August 2007

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Robinson-Smith
Grill
Older Adult, Neurology, Alzheimer Pharmacology Update: Pharmacologic Management of Alzheimer Disease

Volume 40, Issue 1
February 2008

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Downey
Pediatric, Neurology Acute Disseminated Ecephalomyelitis

Volume 39, Issue 4
August 2007

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Harris
Lee

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage,
Aneurysm & Nonaneurysmal,
Acute Care

Nonaneurysmal SAH: A Review of Clinical Course and Outcome in Two Hemorrhage Patterns

Volume 39, Issue 3
June 2007

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Herrmann
Zambramski

 Adult, Neurology, Head Injury

Pharmacological Management of Secreting Pituitary Tumors

Volume 39, Issue 1
February 2007

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Gordon
Adult, Neurology, Head Injury Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: An Update for Advanced Practice Nurses

Volume 39, Issue 1
February 2007

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Bay
Pediatric, Neurology Nursing Issues in Caring for Children with Moyamoya Vasculopathy and Their Families

Volume 39, Issue 1
February 2007

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Golomb
Hune
deVeber
MacGregor
Dirks
Yu
Soman
Allen
Pediatrics/Neurology Optimizing Patient Care in the Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit

Volume 38, Issue 6
December 2006

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Perkins
Buchhalter

Adult, Neurosurgery
Critical Care

S

Nursing Priorities in Caring For Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Volume 38 - Special Issue
September 2006

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Prescuitti
Adult, Neurology Characteristics and Symptom Management of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Volume 38, Issue 4
August 2006

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Ward
Research
Assessment Tool, Stroke Implementation of the Canadian Neurological Scale on an Acute Care Neuroscience Unit: A Program Evaluation

Volume 40, Issue 4
August 2008

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Fowler
Leaton
Baxter
McTigue
Snook

Clinical Research Facilitation Research Corner: Evolution of Nursing Research Committees

Volume 40, Issue 1
February 2008

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Fowler
Leaton
Baxter
McTigue
Snook

Neurosurgery, Spine The Multiple Benefits of Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery: Results Comparing Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion and Posterior Lumbar Fusion

Volume 40, Issue 1
February 2008

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Starkweather
Witek-Janusek
Nockels
Peterson
Mathews

Neurology, Fatigue The Concept of Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis

Volume 40, Issue 2
April 2008

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Johnson

Neurology, Quality of Life
Using Focus Groups To Inform the Neuro-QOL Measurement Tool: Exploring Patient-Centered, Health-Related Quality of Life Concepts Across Neurological Conditions

Volume 39, Issue 6
December 2007

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Huang
Cella
Jansky
Nowinksi
Peterman
Perez
Victorson

Seizures, Outpatient, Epilepsy
A Descriptive Analysis of Seizure Events Among Adults Who Participated in a Computer-Based Assessment

Volume 40, Issue 3
June 2008

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DiIorio
Reisinger
Yeager
Schomer
Henry
Schafer

End-of-Life, Acute Care, Critical Care Neuroscience ICU Nurse's Perceptions About End-of-Life Care

Volume 39, Issue 3
June 2007

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Calvin
Kite-Powell
Hickey
Pediatric, Seizures

Chronic Sorrow and Coping in Families of Children with Epilepsy

Volume 39, Issue 2
April 2007

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Hobdell
Grant
Valencia
Mare
Kothare
Legido
Khurana
Adult Non-Specific Behaviors as Early Indications of Cerebral Vasospasm

Volume 38, Issue 6
December 2006

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Doerksen
Naimark