Clinical Gerontological Nursing: A Guide to Advanced Practice

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This AJN Book of the Year provides current treatment approaches to nursing care in a variety of health care settings the home, hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes. Research-based and fully revised, it discusses the problems and syndromes seen in the older population and covers topics in depth, providing a synthesis of difficult-to-find material. Discussions of assessment instruments, guidelines, protocols, and resources are provided to assist nurses in the management of these clinical problems. This edition also features 12 new chapters that focus on topics such as legal aspects, pain and discomfort, cardiovascular problems, sensory disorders, and intimacy and sexuality.

Provides information applicable to all clinical settings -- eg., home care, hospitals, clinics and nursing homes.

Features a research-based approach to care and current treatment approaches.

Contains in-depth coverage of topics not often found in other nursing texts, such as prescription and OTC drug use and misuse, failure to thrive, iatrogenesis, pain, arthritis and Parkinson's Disease.

Reviews the instruments, guidelines, protocols, and resources used in the management of clinical problems.

Organizes content by clinical problems and syndromes as opposed to diseases and systems.

Summarizes key aspects of clinical problems within tables.

Contributions from 25 new contributors.

New chapters that cover topics such as advanced practice ofgerontological nursing, models of practice, legal aspects, failure to thrive, arthritis, cardiovascular problems, sensory disorders, intimacy and sexuality, pain and discomfort and mistreatment of the elderly.

25 new contributors

12 new chapters that cover topics such as advanced practice of gerontological nursing; models of practice; legal aspects; failure to thrive; arthritis; cardiovascular problems; sensory disorders; intimacy and sexuality; pain and discomfort, and mistreatment of the elderly.

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