ISBN:
9780323811675
Copyright:
2023
Publication Date:
09-09-2022
Page Count:
536
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$90.99
Toward Healthy Aging - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 11th Edition
by Theris A. Touhy, DNP, CNS, DPNAP and Kathleen F Jett, PhD, GNP-BC, DPNAP
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource - Access Card
ISBN:
9780323811675
Copyright:
2023
Publication Date:
09-09-2022
Page Count:
536
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$90.99
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Prepare your students to provide holistic, compassionate nursing care for older adults! Based on evidence-based protocols, Toward Healthy Aging, 11th Edition helps students master gerontological nursing skills with an approach that focuses on health, wholeness, and the potential in aging. In promoting healthy aging, the text emphasizes caring and respect for the person. Special sections provide an honest look at the universal experience of aging. With this classic text, students will learn to apply scientific research, build critical thinking skills, and prepare for success on the NCLEX® exam and in clinical practice.
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- NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) examination-style case studies at the end of chapters include questions to help students prepare for the NGN exam.
- NEW! Updated topics include COPD guidelines, theories of aging, medication use and misuse, palliative care, wound care guidelines, genomic research, and LGBT family relationships and sexualty in older adults.
- NEW! Completely updated content helps students develop clinical judgment skills, identified by the NCSBN and the AACN as a key attribute of professional nursing.
- Promoting Healthy Aging: Implications for Gerontological Nursing sections help you apply concepts to assessments and interventions.
- Nursing Studies provide practice examples designed to assist in assessment, planning, interventions, and outcomes to promote healthy aging.
- A Student Speaks and An Elder Speaks sections at the beginning of every chapter provide perspectives of older people and nursing students.
- Learning objectives in every chapter introduce important content and define learning goals and expectations.
- Key concepts provide a concise review of the most important points found in each chapter.
- Critical Thinking Questions and Activities help students develop clinical judgment skills and include suggestions for in-classroom activities to enhance learning.
- Safety Alerts emphasize QSEN competencies and safety issues related to care of older adults.
- Tips for Best Practice boxes summarize evidence-based nursing interventions for practice.
- Research Highlights boxes summarize important research studies in the field of gerontology
- Research Questions include suggestions and ideas for pursuing nursing research.
- Healthy People boxes reference the goals cited in Healthy People 2020.
- Content consistent with the core competencies for geriatric nursing incorporates the Recommended Baccalaureate Competencies and Curricular Guidelines for the Nursing Care of Older Adults, the Geriatric Nursing Education State of the Science Papers, and the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing Best Practices in Nursing Care to Older Adults.
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- NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) examination-style case studies at the end of chapters include questions to help you prepare for the NGN exam.
- NEW! Completely updated content helps you develop clinical judgment skills, identified by the NCSBN and the AACN as a key attribute of professional nursing.
- NEW! Updated topics include COPD guidelines, theories of aging, medication use and misuse, palliative care, wound care guidelines, genomic research, and LGBT family relationships and sexualty in older adults.
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PART 1 Foundations for Clinical Judgment to Promote Healthy Aging
1 Gerontological Nursing Across the Continuum of Care
2 Aging, Health, and Wellness in a Global Community
3 Theories of Aging
4 Providing Cross-Cultural Care
5 Economics and Health Care in Late Life
6 Promoting Excellence in Long-Term Care
PART 2 Foundations for Taking Action
7 Therapeutic Communication With Older Adults
8 Cognitive Health and Learning
9 Recognizing and Analyzing Cues to Maximize Outcomes
10 Using Laboratory Data in Clinical Judgment
11 Safe Medication Use
PART 3 Clinical Judgment to Promote Wellness and Function
12 Visual Health
13 Auditory Health
14 Healthy Skin
15 Nutritional Health
16 Hydration and Oral Health
17 Elimination
18 Sleep
19 Activity and Exercise
20 Falls and Fall Risk Reduction
21 Safe and Secure Environments
PART 4 Clinical Judgment to Promote Wellness for Persons With Chronic Illnesses
22 Living Well With Chronic Illness
23 Vascular Disorders
24 Respiratory Disorders
25 Neurocognitive Disorders
26 Care of Individuals With Neurocognitive Disorders
27 Endocrine and Immune Disorders
28 Common Musculoskeletal Disorders
29 Pain and Comfort
30 Mental Health
PART 5 Clinical Judgment to Promote Healthy
Aging With Older Adults and Families
31 Ethics, Decision Making, and Mistreatment
32 Relationships, Roles, and Life Transitions
33 Intimacy and Sexual Health
34 Loss, Death, and Palliative Care
35 Spiritual Health, Meaning, and Self-Actualization
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