Gerontologic Nursing

Gerontologic Nursing
ISBN-10
0323007570
ISBN-13
9780323007573
Series
Gerontologic Nursing
Category
Medical / Nursing / Gerontology
Pages
846
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Mosby
Author
Annette Giesler Lueckenotte

Description

GERONTOLOGIC NURSING provides comprehensive coverage of health promotion, gerontologic concepts and issues, and medical-surgical problems associated with the older adult. Divided into seven parts, each chapter follows a consistent organization including learning objectives, emergency boxes, client and family teaching boxes, research boxes, key points, special insights, and new health promotion and nutrition boxes. The second edition also includes a new chapter on health promotion, expanded chapters on nutrition and functional assessment, and a dedicated MERLIN which provides the student and instructor with additional up-to-date tools and resources to enhance and expand their content knowledge.

  • Highlights fundamental aging theories to provide a basis for biological and psychosocial aspects of quality nursing care.
    • Provides complete and comprehensive coverage of assessment recapping normal, deviations from normal and abnormal findings.
  • Uses a 5-step nursing process format to provide the consistent framework for presentation of nursing care.
    • Features care plans with clinical situations for those disorders most prevalent in the elderly.
  • Includes a separate chapter on cultural influences and integrates cultural awareness boxes throughout to focus on specific customs related to how a nurse might care for the aging client.
    • Includes separate chapters focusing on acute, home and long term care to provide a complete discussion of care in each of these settings.
  • Provides detailed coverage of pain, infection, cancer, chronic illness, loss, death and dying, and substance abuse to explain potentially complex aspects of aging and the related care.
    • Provides a consistent chapter pedagogy including learning objectives, summary, key points, and critical thinking exercises.
  • Includes Client/Family teaching boxes that emphasize key aspects of practice and teaching for self-care.
    • Highlights Home Care Tips Boxes to promote practical, effective care for the home-bound older client.
  • Integrates Insight boxes that provide realistic vignettes on caring for the elderly and helpful hints from today's practicing gerontological nurses.
    • Provides Emergency Treatment boxes that alert the student to danger signs and list immediate interventions.
  • Includes research boxes with abstracts of current research and implications for practice.
  • Provides a nuts-and-bolts guide to blood-product administration for adult and pediatric
    • patients.
  • Outlines and explains transfusion reactions.
    • Describes the effect of different types of fluids used in resuscitation.
  • Includes formulas used in fluid administration.
    • Provides the most up-to-date information about oxygen delivery devices.
  • Presents information on how to help a Spanish-speaking child identify his/her level of
    • pain.
  • Includes the pediatric coma scale.
    • Features the pediatric trauma score which is used to help evaluate the severity of injury.
  • Provides information about domestic violence in the Mental Health Conditions chapter.
    • Includes a section on the role of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) and the
  • latest findings on sexual assault.
    • Presents additional information on mammalian bites and anaphylactic shock.
  • Highlights major points of care for quick reference with bold or italicized text.
    • Presents pediatric and adult content separately in the reference section of the book for
  • fast and easy access.
    • Includes stroke and hypothermia algorithms.
  • Covers the latest information on conscious sedation according to JCAHO standards,
    • including a table on deep sedation.
  • Features several new and updated tables which include the following information:
    • conversion of Centigrade and Fahrenheit, updated normal lab values, updated medication
  • tables, etc.

    • (Includes a FREE MERLIN website at: www.harcourthealth.com/MERLIN/Lueckenotte/)

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