Epilepsy: its presentation and nursing management.

Nearly 25,000 people in the UK develop epilepsy each year, making it one of the most common serious neurological conditions. The form a seizure takes depends on where it starts in the brain and how far it spreads. Nurses need to recognise the different types of epileptic seizure and the appropriate nursing management of each. National guidance on how epilepsy services can be improved will be published by the government and will include a national service framework for long-term conditions, including epilepsy.