Nurses’ Performance Regarding Care of Children with Neurological Disorders

Abstract

The term “neurologic disorder” applies to any condition that is caused by a dysfunction in part of the brain or nervous system, resulting in physical and/or psychological symptoms. The development of the human brain begins during pregnancy and continues through infancy, childhood and adolescence. Most brain cells are formed before birth but the trillions of connections between these nerve cells (neurons) are not developed until infancy (Heim et al., 2011). Neurological disorders in different age groups of childhood are enormous however; high magnitude of neurological problem is contributed by high prevalence of chronic neurological disorders like cerebral palsy, epilepsy, febrile seizures, autism, learning disability, intellectual disability, and headache. Similarly, the central nervous system (CNS) infections, traumatic brain injury, stroke are common conditions leading to long term sequelae (Sahu et al., 2014).