WOCNext 2019

(313) If You Can't Make Your Neurotransmitters, Store-Bought is Just Fine: Neurological Disorders Manifestations and Complications in the Skin, GI and GU Systems (Room Grand Ballroom B-C)

24 Jun 19
4:20 PM - 5:20 PM

Tracks: AP w/ Pharm, Continence, Ostomy, Wound

Speaker(s): Janice Beitz, Professor of Nursing and WOC Program Director, Rutgers University School of Nursing-Camden

Neurological Disorders affect patients across the lifespan. Parkinson's Disease is a degenerative process affecting older persons while spinal cord injury is acute and affects mostly younger individuals. This session will compare and contrast how both disorders manifest in and alter the integumentary, gastrointestinal and genitourinary systems. Implications for WOC nursing are described.