OVERVIEW

Multiple Sclerosis (MS): Caring for the Patient is organized by RnCeus Interactive and will be held from Apr 16, 2020 - Nov 07, 2022.

Target Audience & Credits:
This target audience for this course is nurses and other health care professionals seeking information about multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic disabling neurological disease.

Nurses and other health professionals may earn 4 contact hours for completing this course.

To earn 4 contact hours, participants must agree to spend no less than 240 minutes studying course material, exploring Internet links, and completing the exam and evaluation.

Course Overview:
This course is intended to provide nurses and other health care professionals with information about multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic disabling neurological disease. Although there is as yet no cure for MS, the recent development and use of disease modifying drugs has brought new hope for people with MS. Nurses play a vital role in helping patients and families learn how to manage MS symptoms, and how to achieve an acceptable quality of life despite neurological impairments.

Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, the learner should be able:
• To describe the epidemiology, incidence, and prevalence of MS.
• To identify the etiology and pathophysiology of MS.
• To state 4 disease course classifications for MS.
• To describe 10 symptoms commonly experienced by persons with MS.
• To identify 3 criteria used to establish a diagnosis of MS.
• To recognize factors associated with more favorable and less favorable prognoses in MS.