{"title":"Increasing nurses' awareness of acute encephalitis.","authors":"Ellen Schoen","doi":"10.1097/NSG.0000000000000247","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Acute encephalitis is a neurologic disorder that can lead to rapid deterioration and critical illness, and can have long-term neurologic and neuropsychiatric complications. This article aims to increase nurses' awareness of the epidemiology, signs and symptoms, practice guidelines, and nursing management of patients with acute encephalitis. In addition to describing disease presentation and progression, this article also offers insight into the long-term effects of encephalitis and the resources available to survivors.</p>","PeriodicalId":35641,"journal":{"name":"Nursing","volume":"55 10","pages":"43-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nursing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NSG.0000000000000247","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/9/22 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Nursing","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: Acute encephalitis is a neurologic disorder that can lead to rapid deterioration and critical illness, and can have long-term neurologic and neuropsychiatric complications. This article aims to increase nurses' awareness of the epidemiology, signs and symptoms, practice guidelines, and nursing management of patients with acute encephalitis. In addition to describing disease presentation and progression, this article also offers insight into the long-term effects of encephalitis and the resources available to survivors.
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Nursing2020 (ISSN 0360-4039; online ISSN 1538-8689) published its first issue in November 1971, under founders Gene W. Jackson and Daniel Cheney. In the intervening years, its circulation has grown to over 150,000, making it one of the largest nursing journals in the world. Published monthly, Nursing2020 is widely regarded as offering current, practical contents to its readers, and has won many editorial awards testifying to the quality of its copy and graphics. The editorial and clinical staff, a 19-member Editorial Board of distinguished clinicians and practitioners, and over 100 invited reviewers help ensure the quality of this publication.