Gerontologic Nursing
- 6th Edition - December 26, 2016
- Imprint: Mosby
- Authors: Sue E. Meiner, Jennifer J. Yeager
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 4 9 8 1 1 - 1
- LooseLeaf ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 4 8 3 8 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 4 9 8 0 9 - 8
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Request a sales quoteCompassionately care for the aging population with Gerontologic Nursing, 6th Edition, uniquely known for its comprehensive coverage of the most common medical-surgical problems associated with older adults. Organized by body system for easy retrieval of information, it delves into health promotion and both basic and complex gerontologic concepts and issues. This disorder-focused gerontologic nursing text features an enhanced focus on nursing management and care coordination across health care delivery settings. It emphasizes topics such as nutrition, chronic illness, emergency treatment, patient teaching, home care, and end-of-life care — and includes the latest guidelines for mammograms, colonoscopies, pneumonia, and shingles vaccinations. With the addition of new nursing theories, this edition offers a valuable framework for gerontologic care.
- Overview of age-related changes in structure and function included in all body system chapters.
- The most current standards and guidelines keep you in the know.
- Psychologic and sociocultural issues and aspects of older adult care integrated throughout the text.
- Critical thinking questions included at end of chapters.
- UNIQUE! Patient/Family Teaching boxes emphasize key aspects of practice and teaching for self-care.
- Health Promotion/Illness Prevention boxes provide tips to promote leading a healthy life.
- UNIQUE! Nutritional Consideration boxes demonstrate special nutritional needs and concerns facing the aging population.
- Evidence-Based Practice boxes pull the critical evidence-based information contained in the text into boxes for easy access and identification.
- Cultural Awareness boxes highlight differences in how key concepts are understood or practiced in various cultures.
- Home Care boxes highlight tips to promote practical, effective home care for the older adult.
- Key Points at end of chapters summarize the important concepts discussed in the chapter.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the Authors
- Contributors and Reviewers
- Preface
- Organization
- Format
- Features
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Introduction to Gerontologic Nursing
- 1: Overview of Gerontologic Nursing
- Foundations of the specialty of gerontologic nursing
- Demographic profile of the older population
- Health status of older adults
- Effect of an aging population on gerontologic nursing
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 2: Theories Related to Care of the Older Adult
- Biologic theories of aging
- Sociologic theories of aging
- Psychological theories of aging
- Nursing theories
- Moral and spiritual development
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 3: Legal and Ethical Issues
- Professional standards: their origin and legal significance
- Overview of relevant laws
- Elder abuse and protective services
- Nursing facility reform
- Autonomy and self-determination
- The patient self-determination act
- Values history
- Nurses’ ethical code and end-of-life care
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 4: Assessment of the Older Adult
- Special considerations affecting assessment
- The health history
- Additional assessment measures
- Laboratory data
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- Part II: Influences on Health and Illness
- 5: Cultural Influences
- Diversity of the older adult population in the united states
- Culturally sensitive gerontologic nursing care
- Skills
- Cultural competence frameworks
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 6: Family Influences
- Role and function of families
- Common late-life family issues and decisions
- Interventions to support family caregivers
- Working with families of older adults: considerations and strategies
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 7: Socioeconomic and Environmental Influences
- Socioeconomic factors
- Environmental influences
- Advocacy
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 8: Health Promotion and Illness/Disability Prevention
- Essentials of health promotion for aging adults
- Models of health promotion
- Barriers to health promotion and disease prevention
- Health protection
- Disease prevention
- The nurse’s role in health promotion and disease prevention
- Supporting empowerment of older adults
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- Part III: Influences on Quality of Life
- 9: Nutrition
- Introduction
- Factors influencing nutritional risk in older adults
- Drug–nutrient interactions
- Dehydration
- Micronutrient deficiency
- Malnutrition
- Oral health
- Nutritional screening and assessment
- Nursing diagnoses associated with nutritional problems
- Evidence-based strategies to improve nutrition
- Components of a healthy diet
- Dysphagia
- Specialized nutritional support
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 10: Sleep and Activity
- Sleep and older adults
- Activity and older adults
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 11: Safety
- Falls
- Nursing management of falls
- Safety and the home environment
- Seasonal safety issues
- Disasters
- Storage of medications and health care supplies in the home
- Living alone
- Automobile safety
- Abuse and neglect
- Firearms
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 12: Sexuality and Aging
- Older adult needs for sexuality and intimacy
- The importance of intimacy among older adults
- Nursing’s reluctance to manage the sexuality of older adults
- Normal changes of the aging sexual response
- Pathologic conditions affecting older adults’ sexual responses
- Environmental and psychosocial barriers to sexual practice
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender older adults
- Nursing management
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 13: Pain
- Understanding pain
- Pathophysiology of pain in older adults
- Barriers to effective pain management in older adults
- Pain assessment
- Nursing care of older adults with pain
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 14: Infection and Inflammation
- The chain of infection
- Age-related changes in the immune system
- Factors affecting immunocompetence
- Common problems and conditions
- Human immunodeficiency virus infection in older adults
- Significant nosocomial pathogens
- Nursing management
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercise
- Part IV: Diagnostic Studies and Pharmacologic Management
- 15: Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests
- Components of hematologic testing
- Components of blood chemistry testing
- Urinalysis
- Components of arterial blood gas testing
- Therapeutic drug monitoring
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 16: Drugs and Aging
- Overview of drug use and problems
- Commonly used drugs
- Drug adherence
- Substance use disorders
- Assessment
- Nursing diagnoses
- Nursing management
- Commonly misused substances in older adults
- Future trends
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- Part V: Nursing Care of Physiologic and Psychologic Disorders
- 17: Integumentary Function
- Age-related changes in skin structure and function
- Common problems and conditions
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Premalignant skin growths: actinic keratosis
- Nursing Management
- Malignant skin growths
- Nursing Management
- Lower extremity ulcers
- Nursing Management
- Pressure injuries
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 18: Sensory Function
- Vision
- Nursing Management of Glaucoma
- Nursing Management of Cataracts
- Nursing Management of Retinal Disorders
- Nursing Management of Vision Impairment
- Hearing and balance
- Nursing Management of Cerumen Impaction
- Nursing management of Tinnitus
- Nursing Management of Hearing Loss
- Nursing Management of Vertigo
- Taste and smell
- Nursing Management of Xerostomia
- Touch
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 19: Cardiovascular Function
- Age-related changes in structure and function
- Common cardiovascular problems
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 20: Respiratory Function in Aging
- Age-related changes in structure and function
- Factors affecting lung function
- Respiratory symptoms common in older patients
- Respiratory alterations in older patients
- Obstructive pulmonary disease
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Restrictive pulmonary disease
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Other respiratory alterations
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 21: Gastrointestinal Function
- Age-related changes in structure and function
- Prevention
- Common gastrointestinal symptoms
- Common diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Disorders of the accessory organs
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Gastrointestinal cancers
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 22: Urinary Function
- Age-related changes in structure and function
- Prevalence of urinary incontinence
- Common problems and conditions
- Nursing Management
- Age-related renal changes
- Common RENAL problems and conditions
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 23: Musculoskeletal Function
- Age-related changes in structure and function
- Common problems and conditions of the musculoskeletal system
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Nursing Management
- Foot problems
- Muscle cramps
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 24: Cognitive and Neurologic Function*
- Structural age-related changes of the neurologic system
- Assessment of cognitive function
- Cognitive disorders associated with altered thought processes
- Nursing management
- Diagnostic assessment of cognitive disorders
- Treatment of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia
- Nursing management
- Challenges in the care of older adults with cognitive disorders
- Other common problems and conditions
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Drug management
- Mental health care resources
- Trends and needs
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking questions
- 25: Endocrine Function
- Endocrine physiology in older adults
- Common endocrine pathophysiology in older adults
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Nursing management
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- Part VI: Health Care Transitions
- 26: Health Care Delivery Settings and Older Adults
- Characteristics of older adults in acute care
- Characteristics of the acute care environment
- Nursing in the acute care setting
- Home care and hospice
- Factors affecting the health care needs of noninstitutionalized older adults
- Community-based services
- Home health care
- Continuity of care
- Implementing the plan of treatment
- OASIS
- Hospice
- Overview of long-term care
- Clinical aspects of the nursing facility
- Management aspects of the nursing facility
- Specialty care settings
- Innovations in the nursing facility
- The future of the nursing facility
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 27: Chronic Illness and Rehabilitation
- Chronicity
- Rehabilitation
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercise
- 28: Cancer
- Incidence
- Aging and Its relationship to cancer
- Common malignancies in older adults
- Screening and early detection: issues for older adults
- Major treatment modalities
- Common physiologic complications
- Older adults’ experience of cancer
- Summary
- Key points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- 29: Loss and End-of-Life Issues
- Definitions
- Losses
- Mourning
- Approaching death: older persons’ perspectives
- Summary
- Key Points
- Critical-thinking exercises
- Appendix A: Values History Form
- Overall attitude toward life and health
- Personal relationships
- Thoughts about independence and self-sufficiency
- Living environment
- Religious background and beliefs
- Relationships with doctors and other health caregivers
- Thoughts about illness, dying, and death
- Finances
- Funeral plans
- Optional questions
- Legal documents
- Appendix B: U.S. Advocacy Organizations for Older Adults
- Organizations of older adults
- Organizations of professionals working in the field of aging
- Organizations of both professionals and older adults
- Appendix C: Chronic Illness and Rehabilitation Resources
- Index
- Edition: 6
- Published: December 26, 2016
- Imprint: Mosby
- No. of pages: 672
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323498111
- LooseLeaf ISBN: 9780323848381
- eBook ISBN: 9780323498098
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Sue E. Meiner
Affiliations and expertise
President, Consultant on Health Issues, Inc., McKinney, TexasJY
Jennifer J. Yeager
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, USA