Four parts of nursing care for a person living with ALS: assessment, giving the medicines, teaching and communication, and documentation. Each part has an animation or a tool to try, and every figure links to its source.
ScopeThis module reports what guidelines, drug labels and published studies say. It is not a care plan and not medical advice. It does not replace local protocols, your scope of practice or the prescriber. Where the research for this guide found no ALS-specific source, the module says so instead of filling the gap.
1 · Assessment
A nursing assessment round
Seven areas, taken in turn at each review. Press Play to go round the ring; each segment lights up and its published checks tick off on the list.
Schematic. The order follows the research summary for this guide; services order the round their own way.
Breathing measures against the NICE thresholds
Screening scores and their published cut-offs
How often: NICE and EAN disagree
2 · Giving the medicines
Riluzole liver tests: the US and EU labels differ
3 · Teaching and communication
Gastrostomy care: ESPEN and ESGE move the tube differently