Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults - Miller, Carol A Review & Synopsis

 Synopsis

Ensure the most effective wellness-oriented nursing care for older adults - in any healthcare setting.

Confidently deliver wellness-oriented care for older adults across a changing healthcare environment with the latest evidence-based coverage of gerontological nursing. Comprehensively revised and updated, Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults, Eighth Edition fosters your understanding of both the physiologic and psychosocial aspects of aging, as well as broader issues of cultural competence, legal matters, and ethical concerns. Organized around the author's proven Functional Consequences Theory for Promoting Wellness in Older Adults, this trusted text focuses on equipping you to work proactively with older adults to promote high levels of functioning and quality of life, despite the limitations associated with aging, disease, and related conditions.

>> NEW! Technology to Promote Wellness in Older Adults boxes familiarize you with technology-based interventions for promoting wellness in older adults.

>> NEW! Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) coverage emphasizes strategies for working with other healthcare professionals in managing care of older patients.

>> NEW! Global Perspective boxes illustrate proven international approaches to quality gerontological nursing.

>> NEW! Unfolding Patient Stories authored by the National League for Nursing challenge you to apply your understanding to realistic patient scenarios.

>> NEW! A Transitional Care Unfolding Case Study helps you manage a patient requiring care across a variety of healthcare settings.

>> Case Studies (both multipart and standalone) encourage you to apply nursing theory to real-life situations.

>> Quality and Safety Education in Nursing (QSEN) examples help you apply knowledge and skills to care plans for unfolding cases.

>> Assessment, Intervention, Evidence-Based Practice, Cultural Considerations, Diversity Note, and Caregiver Wellness boxes detail helpful approaches and tools for effective wellness-oriented nursing practice.

>> Online Learning Activities point readers to the book's companion web page to access related resources, articles, and evidence-based guidelines.

American Journal of Nursing

Gerontologic Nursing Book of the Year

2015

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Review

Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults

Now in its Fifth Edition, this text provides a comprehensive and wellness-oriented approach to the theory and practice of gerontologic nursing. Organized around the author's unique "functional consequences theory" of gerontologic nursing, the book explores "normal" age-related changes and risk factors that often interfere with optimal health and functioning, to effectively identify and teach health-promotion interventions. The author provides research-based background information and a variety of practical assessment and intervention strategies for use in every clinical setting. Highlights of this edition include expanded coverage of evidence-based practice, more first-person stories, new chapters, and clinical tools such as assessment tools recommended by the Hartford Institute of Geriatric Nursing.

Now in its Fifth Edition, this text provides a comprehensive and wellness-oriented approach to the theory and practice of gerontologic nursing."

Studyguide for Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults by Miller, Carol A.

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Nursing Care of Older Adults

Fully revised and updated, Nursing Care of Older Adults, Third Edition delivers the information today's nurses need to improve the functioning and quality of life for older adults. Focused on wellness, the text highlights that older adulthood need not be a time of illness or infirmity.

Focused on wellness, the text highlights that older adulthood need not be a time of illness or infirmity."

Studyguide for Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults by Miller, Carol A., ISBN 9781605477770

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Studyguide for Nursing for Wellness in Older Adults

Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all of the testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events from the textbook are included. Cram101 Just the FACTS101 studyguides give all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and quizzes for your textbook with optional online comprehensive practice tests. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Accompanys: 9780781771757 .

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Elder Abuse and Nursing

The only text about elder abuse specifically for nurses in clinical settings. Nurses are required by law to report elder abuse even when it is suspected but not verified. This is the only research-based and clinically oriented textthat applies what is known about different forms of elder abuse in domestic and long-term care settings to the everyday experiences of practicing nurses.Content not only addresses legal and ethical concerns, but also serves as an essential guide to caring for older adults, delineating the role of nurses indetecting, suspecting, reporting, assessing, intervening for, and preventing elder abuse in all clinical settings. Detailed and unfolding case studiesthroughout the text illustrate nurses in action as they address elder abuse in commonly encountered nurse-client or nurse-patient situations. Chapters show nurses in various health care settings how to address elder abuse issues relating to older adults, caregivers, perpetrators, and situationalinfluences. Each section provides nurses with crucial information about how to access essential resources for addressing specific aspects of elder abuselike self-neglect, domestic abuse, abuse in long-term care settings, financial abuse, and sexual abuse. In-depth guides help nurses apply their usualnursing assessment and intervention skills to unusual situations when they care for older adults who are in actually or potentially abusive situations. Inan easy-to-use and clinically applicable format, concise tools and guides throughout the book highlight core facets of elder abuse and the role of nurses.Each chapter concludes with Key Points: What Nurses Need to Know and Can Do to highlight the content that is most applicable to nursing care of olderadults. Key Features: Presents essential facts about different forms of elder abuse and applies the information to nursing care of older adults in various clinical settings Describes key criteria for nurses to use for recognizing, assessing, intervening for, and reporting elder abuse Addresses legal, ethical, cultural, and interprofessional care considerations Provides numerous guides to nursing assessment and interventions that address elder abuse Describes many types of case examples illustrating nurses in action addressing situations of elder abuse Includes words of older adults describing their experiences and perceptions of elder abuse Includes words and thoughts of nurses describing their reflections on and perceptions of elder abuse situations Concludes each chapter with Key Points: What Nurses Need to Know and Can Do

This is the only research-based and clinically oriented textthat applies what is known about different forms of elder abuse in domestic and long-term care settings to the everyday experiences of practicing nurses.Content not only addresses ..."

Fast Facts for Dementia Care

This newest addition to the Fast Facts series is a succinct guide for nurses in adult health clinical settings on how to provide person-centered care for patients who have dementia as a concurrent condition. With an easy-access format, it offers the most up-to-date information on dementia and provides strategies for clinical management that facilitate the nurse's work while improving care for patients. The book presents specific care strategies for all stages of dementia and emphasizes relatively simple interventions that nurses can incorporate into their care plans to prevent problems or address them before they escalate. The guide distinguishes between dementia and conditions that mimic dementia, discusses issues related to specific care settings, presents person-centered strategies for families and care partners, and covers the assessment and management of pain, safety concerns, communication strategies, and ethical and legal issues. It additionally provides numerous resources that nurses can offer to caregivers. Fast Facts for Dementia Care will serve as a daily companion for all clinical nurses who work with older patients in any setting, including the emergency room, medical-surgical unit, medical office, and community mental health settings. Key Features: Easy to use and carry in all patient settings Provides communication techniques for different stages of dementia Describes numerous interventions for addressing issues such as pain, safety, behaviours, and ADLs Includes the ìFast Facts in a Nutshellî feature for quick reference Illustrates content with case vignettes

This newest addition to the Fast Facts series is a succinct guide for nurses in adult health clinical settings on how to provide person-centered care for patients who have dementia as a concurrent condition."

Fast Facts for Dementia Care, Second Edition

This quick-access clinical reference for nurses in adult health settings addresses the most prevalent and complex management challenges in caring for people with dementia. The second edition—completely updated with the newest guidelines for evidence-based, person-centered care—includes two new chapters on the Emotional Needs of People with Dementia and Self-Neglect and Elder Abuse, along with new information on cultural considerations and distinguishing between dementia and delirium. Quotes from people with dementia are included in this edition to give first-person accounts of their experiences. Fast Facts for Dementia Care, Second Edition delivers specific care strategies for all stages of dementia in a wide range of clinical settings, including acute care, long-term care, and home and community settings. Chapters introduce relatively simple dementia-specific interventions nurses can incorporate into their care plans to prevent or address problems before they escalate. Using bullet points and concise paragraphs, this streamlined resource discusses the issues faced by people with dementia and their care partners and what nurses can do. It addresses disease progression, assessment and management of pain, medications, safety concerns, communication strategies, ethical issues, and end-of-life care. New to the Second Edition: Completely updated with the newest guidelines for evidence-based, person-centered care of people with dementia New information of cultural considerations including culturally appropriate communication, considerations related to treatment goals, and more Chapters on Emotional Needs of People with Dementia and Self-Neglect and Elder Abuse Key Features: Helps identify and manage conditions associated with mental status, including delirium and dementia Provides clinical vignettes and quotes of real-life situations illustrating successful nursing interventions Discusses communication techniques for different stages of dementia Describes numerous interventions for addressing issues such as pain, safety, end-of-life care, and more Includes “Fast Facts” boxes for quick reference to essential information

Quotes from people with dementia are included in this edition to give first-person accounts of their experiences."

The Meaning Is in the Dirt: Meditations on Life's Richness

This book offers short and easy-to-read meditations that address making meaning through the metaphor of dirt. With their decades of working with people facing challenging circumstances, Marlette and Annette explain why making meaning is important, and they outline practical ways in which adults can find meaning in their lives.

This book offers short and easy-to-read meditations that address making meaning through the metaphor of dirt."

Fundamentals of Nursing

Designed to maximize visual learning, this Sixth Edition features a new art program and an integrated, cohesive, student-focused suite of multimedia products. Brand-new icons direct students to free video clips and online activities. New concept maps walk students through the nursing process for selected case-study patients. Unexpected outcomes are now included in skills descriptions. Like previous editions, the text maintains its unique holistic "blended skills" approach to nursing care and focuses on case-based learning and critical thinking. A back-of-book CD-ROM includes video clips and a Spanish-English audio glossary. A companion online course is available free with purchase of the text.

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