Table of Contents Details

Key Features

  • Focus on health and wellness helps you gain an understanding of the patient’s experience.
  • AACN and the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing core competencies integrated throughout.
  • Consistent chapter organization and pedagogy, including Learning Objectives, Glossary, and Research and Study Questions/Activities.
  • Evidence-Based Practice boxes summarize research findings that confirm effective practices or identify practices with unknown, ineffective, or harmful effects.
  • Careful attention to age, cultural, and gender differences helps you understand these important considerations in caring for older adults
  • Expanded tables, boxes, and forms, including the latest scales and guidelines for proper health assessment make information easy to find and use.
  • Activities and discussion questions at the end of every chapter equip you with the information you need to assess the patient.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Foundations of Healthy Aging

  1. Introduction to healthy aging

  2. Gerontological nursing history, education, and roles

  3. Care across the continuum

  4. Culture and aging

  5. Theories of aging and physical changes

  6. Social, psychological, spiritual, and cognitive aspects of aging

    7. Part 2: Fundamentals of caring

  7. Assessment and documentation for optimal care

  8. Safe medication use

  9. Nutrition and Hydration

  10. Elimination

  11. Rest, sleep, and activity

  12. Promoting healthy skin and feet

  13. Promoting safety

    14. Part 3: Coping with chronic disorders in late life

  14. Living with chronic illness

  15. Pain and comfort

  16. Diseases affecting vision and hearing

  17. Metabolic disorders

  18. Bone and joint problems

  19. Cardiac and respiratory disorders

  20. Neurological disorders

  21. Cognitive impairment

  22. Mental health

    23. Part 4: Caring for elders and their caregivers

  23. Economic and legal issues

  24. Relationships, roles, and transitions

  25. Loss, death, and palliative care

Details

No. of pages:
456
Language:
English
Copyright:
© 2014
Published:
Imprint:
Mosby
eBook ISBN:
9780323096041
eBook ISBN:
9780323266260
eBook ISBN:
9780323171694
Print ISBN:
9780323096065
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