Gerontologic Nursing

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/)