Description
UNIQUE! Nursing Care Plans follow the nursing process and include Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each plan.
UNIQUE! Key Points at the end of chapters summarize chapter highlights.
Clear, concise writing throughout, makes the content easily understandable and consistent.
Nursing Process sections in each appropriate chapter provides a strong framework for the discussion of the nursing care of the elderly patient as related to specific disorders.
UNIQUE! Nursing Interventions grouped according to health care setting (e.g. acute care, extended care, home care) allow you to see how care may be adapted and/or modified depending on the setting.
UNIQUE! Patient Teaching boxes instruct and inform both elderly patients and their caregivers about health promotion, disease prevention, and age-specific interventions.
UNIQUE! Complementary and Alternative Therapies boxes for geriatric patients provide valuable information on pain management through nonpharmocologic therapies.
Clinical Situations boxes include patient scenarios in the clinical setting, preparing you for patient care in the real world.
UNIQUE! Delegation Considerations boxes address such topics as restraints, elder abuse, and end-of-life care as related to responsibilities of nursing assistants and other health care workers who are supervised by LPN/LVNs.
UNIQUE! Critical Thinking boxes stress important content-related points and pose questions designed to stimulate further discussion.
Cultural Considerations boxes provide advice on culturally diverse patient care of older adults.
Includes content on ethical and legal issues in end-of-life care (including separate chapter that addresses pain management and palliative care in both the institutional and home settings).
UNIQUE! Perforated Student Activities workbook at the back of the book includes a variety of matching, multiple-choice, study questions, case studies with critical thinking questions, and Internet activities.
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