Nursing Care of Older Adults: Diagnoses, Outcomes, and Interventions
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Nursing Care of Older Adultsis designed to help nurses recognise signs and symptoms, aid diagnoses, select pertinent outcomes to monitor and evaluate the older adults status, and prescribe correct interventions. The book is organised into 11 units by functional health patterns and will include the use of standardised nursing diagnoses, nursing sensitive outcomes and interventions to assist nurses with assessment, diagnostic reasoning and evaluation of outcomes effectiveness. The book will also assist nurses to identify critical gaps and future research needs. This will help to support nursing practice and illustrate why the use and documentation of nursesdecisions and actions is essential in the development of evidence based practice, and to influence health policy decisions that benefit older adults.Each unit begins with an overview and a chapter on normal ageing to provide the basis for understanding the pathological parameters for each diagnosisCommon problems are presented in each chapter in a consistent format
Case studies of common problems are integrated throughout to illustrate the assessment data and diagnostic and treatment reasoning
Case studies of common problems are integrated throughout to illustrate the assessment data and diagnostic and treatment reasoning
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0323012590
ISBN13:9780323012591
Release Date:January 2001
Publisher:Mosby
Length:834 Pages
Weight:3.85 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"
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