Download e-book for kindle: Gerontology Nursing Case Studies: 100 Narratives for by Donna J., MSN, EdD, RN, CNE Bowles

Designated a Doody's center Title!

"This is a superb educating advisor and source handbook for teachers, gerontological nursing scholars, and practising nurses and social staff who desire to study extra approximately geriatric matters and care. will probably be stored through nursing scholars lengthy when they graduate as a consultant to assets that may be important all through their nursing careers. As a house care nurse operating typically with the geriatric neighborhood, i discovered the assets beneficial in my perform. As an teacher, i discovered the e-book to be a truly worthwhile advisor for educating geriatrics." Score: ninety, four Stars. -Doody's scientific Reviews

"Donna Bowles's Gerontology Nursing Case Studies is a special quantity that successfully addresses the inability of gerontology case stories to be used with undergraduate nursing scholars. Case experiences are a pedagogically robust method of lively studying that provide possibilities to use content material to medical practice."--The Gerontologist

"The case narrative strategy of this booklet promotes lively studying that's extra significant to scholars (and working towards nurses) and prone to elevate the move of facts into perform. a very good source for college (staff educators) to facilitate serious studying skills."

Liz Capezuti, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. John W. Rowe Professor in winning Aging
Co-Director, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
New York collage collage of Nursing

"This is a great textual content that gives nurses and different future health care services [with] reliable easy information regarding scientific difficulties and demanding situations we are facing in delivering care to older adults. it may be thought of required interpreting in all undergraduate programs."

--From the foreword via Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP
Professor, collage of Maryland institution of Nursing
Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology

At the center of this targeted quantity are a hundred case stories of older adults that deal with approximately each issue-physical, psychological, and psychosocial-that may perhaps confront healthiness care companies who paintings with the getting older inhabitants. those case experiences, culled from participants with numerous centuries' worthy of mixed nursing services, are designed to steer nursing scholars within the improvement of interventions that surround either complementary and substitute healthiness techniques. workouts interspersed all through each one case examine are designed to foster serious considering and decision-making skills.

These case narratives offer a holistic method of challenge fixing in regard to political, moral, and felony concerns; loss and end-of-life concerns; elder abuse; melancholy, habit and suicide; vainness and kinfolk relationships; sexuality; age-related future health matters; cognitive impairment; cultural variety because it pertains to getting older; soreness administration; and sleep disturbances. the quantity additionally addresses such modern psychosocial concerns as playing dependancy, hoarding habit, emergency preparedness, the getting older driving force, and long-distance caregiving.

Key Features:

• Provides a hundred evidence-based case studies
• Cultivates improvement of serious considering and decision-making skills
• Features lifelike, modern scenarios
• Designed to be used around the gerontology nursing curriculum
• Geared for AACN and NLN Accreditation
• Organized in line with the desires of exact scientific settings