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NEW EDITION!
Basic Geriatric Nursing, 4th Edition
Gloria Hoffman Wold, RN, BSN, MS
October 2007 | Approx. 352 pp., 130 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-323-05243-6 |
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Now in full color! Engaging and easy-to-read, Basic Geriatric Nursing, 4th Edition clearly presents the theories and concepts of aging, the physiologic and psychosocial changes and problems associated with the process, and appropriate nursing interventions. With its easy-to-read, clear writing style, this text provides the depth and breadth of geriatrics content LPN/LVN students need! |
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NEW TO THIS EDITION
- Home health content provides helpful home care tips for both patients and caregivers.
- Content on Alzheimer's disease addresses the special nursing considerations for patients with this disorder.
- Expanded coverage of therapeutic communication, cultural considerations, and spiritual influences helps students better understand how these issues relate to effective patient care.
- UNIQUE! Coverage of baby boomers discusses the effects of aging in this large population segment on our health care system.
OUTSTANDING FEATURES
- End-of-Life Care chapter addresses essential issues for both institutional and home care settings, including information on palliative and hospice care, pain management, and how belief systems affect the dying person and caregiver(s).
- Delegation Considerations boxes feature topics such as restraints, elder abuse, and end-of-life care as related to responsibilities of nursing assistants and other health care workers who are supervised by LPN/LVNs.
- Cultural Considerations boxes provide practical tips on how to provide culturally sensitive patient care.
- Complementary and Alternative Therapy boxes address popular therapies used in pain relief and other treatments.
- Patient Teaching boxes instruct and inform both elderly patients and their caregivers about health promotion, illness prevention, and age-specific interventions.
- Critical Thinking boxes pose questions designed to stimulate and sharpen critical thinking skills.
- Nursing Process sections integrated throughout discuss disease-specific nursing care of elderly patients.
- Discussions of ethical and legal issues present essential information on end-of-life care, restraints, and elder abuse.
- Nursing Interventions are grouped according to health care setting to make it easier to determine the appropriateness of individual interventions for different patient populations.
- Clinical Situations present specific patient scenarios and appropriate application of nursing care.
- Patient-specific Nursing Care Plans include Critical Thinking Questions.
- Perforated self-assessment workbook in the back of the book provides students with a built-in study tool that includes matching and multiple-choice review questions, case studies with critical thinking questions, and Internet activities.
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