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Handbook of geriatric nursing care.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geriatric nursing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Geriatric nursing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (676 p.)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Second Edition of this A-to-Z guide covers a wide range of areas of concern pertaining to the growing geriatric population. Completely reviewed, updated and expanded, it includes more than 150 illustrations and charts. This text invites readers to investigate more than 200 disorders and age-oriented issues, such as lab value changes, sexuality, grief and loss, alternative therapies and cultural influences on compliance, self-care and recovery. Comprehensive and easy-to-use, this manual covers Alzheimer's, cataract removal treatments, and many other new and expanded topics.
- Contents:
- Cover
- copyright
- AUTHORS
- FOREWORD
- Contents
- ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM
- ABUSE AND NEGLECT
- ACUTE RENAL FAILURE
- ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME
- ADVANCE DIRECTIVES
- AGE DISCRIMINATION
- ALCOHOL ABUSE
- ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
- AMPUTATION
- ANEMIA, IRON DEFICIENCY
- ANGIOPLASTY, PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY
- ANXIETY
- AORTIC STENOSIS
- APPENDECTOMY
- APPENDICITIS
- AROMATHERAPY
- ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASE
- ART THERAPY
- ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA
- ASSESSMENT, FUNCTIONAL
- ASSESSMENT, PHYSICAL
- ASSISTED SUICIDE
- ASSISTIVE DEVICES
- ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
- BASAL CELL EPITHELIOMA
- BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA
- BIOFEEDBACK
- BIPOLAR DISORDER
- BLADDER AND BOWEL RETRAINING
- BLADDER CANCER
- BLOOD SAMPLE COLLECTION
- BLOOD TRANSFUSION
- BOWEL RESECTION WITH ANASTOMOSIS
- BOWEL RESECTION WITH OSTOMY
- BREAST CANCER
- BREAST SELF-EXAMINATION
- BRONCHOSCOPY
- BUCCAL, SUBLINGUAL, AND TRANSLINGUAL MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
- CALCIUM DEFICIENCY
- CALCIUM EXCESS
- CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION
- CARDIOGENIC SHOCK
- CARDIOMYOPATHY
- CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
- CARDIOVERSION, SYNCHRONIZED
- CATARACT
- CATARACT REMOVAL
- CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER CARE
- CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT
- CERUMEN IMPACTION
- CERVICAL CANCER
- CHEMOTHERAPY
- CHEST DRAINAGE
- CHEST PHYSIOTHERAPY
- CHLORIDE DEFICIENCY
- CHLORIDE EXCESS
- CHOLECYSTECTOMY
- CHOLECYSTITIS
- CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE
- CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE
- COCHLEAR IMPLANT
- COLD APPLICATION
- COLORECTAL CANCER
- COMPLIANCE
- CONDOM CATHETER APPLICATION
- CONSTIPATION
- CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING
- CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
- CYSTECTOMY
- DANCE THERAPY
- DEATH AND DYING
- DELIRIUM
- DEMENTIA
- DEPRESSION
- DIABETES MELLITUS
- DIARRHEA
- DIVERTICULAR DISEASE
- DRUG ABUSE AND MISUSE
- EAR MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION.
- ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY
- ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY STUDIES
- ENDARTERECTOMY
- END-OF-LIFE CARE
- ENDOSCOPY
- ENEMA ADMINISTRATION
- ENTERAL NUTRITION
- ENTERAL TUBE MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
- ENTROPION AND ECTROPION
- EPIDURAL ANALGESIA ADMINISTRATION
- ESOPHAGEAL CANCER
- ESOPHAGEAL DIVERTICULA
- EXERCISE
- EYE MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
- FALLS AND FALL PREVENTION
- FECAL DISIMPACTION
- FECAL INCONTINENCE
- FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY
- FOOT CARE
- GASTRIC CANCER
- GASTRIC SURGERY
- GASTRITIS
- GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE
- GLAUCOMA
- GLUCOSE MONITORING
- GRIEF
- GROUP THERAPY
- HEARING AIDS
- HEART FAILURE
- HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT
- HEAT APPLICATION, DIRECT
- HEMODIALYSIS
- HERPES ZOSTER
- HIATAL HERNIA
- HIP FRACTURE
- HIP REPLACEMENT
- HOME SAFETY
- HYPEROSMOLAR HYPERGLYCEMIC NONKETOTIC SYNDROME
- HYPERTENSION
- HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC
- IMAGERY
- IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATOR
- IMPOTENCE
- INCONTINENCE MANAGEMENT
- INDWELLING URINARY CATHETER INSERTION
- INFLUENZA
- INFORMED CONSENT
- INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION
- INTRAMUSCULAR INJECTION
- I.V. MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
- KERATOSES
- LEUKEMIA
- LIFE-REVIEW THERAPY
- LUNG CANCER
- MACULAR DEGENERATION
- MAGNETIC FIELD THERAPY
- MAMMOGRAPHY
- MASTECTOMY
- MECHANICAL VENTILATION
- MEDITATION
- MELANOMA, MALIGNANT
- METABOLIC ACIDOSIS
- METABOLIC ALKALOSIS
- MUSIC THERAPY
- MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
- NUTRITIONAL NEEDS
- OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER
- ORAL MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
- OSTEOARTHRITIS
- OSTEOPOROSIS
- OSTOMY CARE
- OTOSCLEROSIS
- OXYGEN THERAPY
- PACEMAKER INSERTION
- PAIN MANAGEMENT
- PANCREATITIS
- PARKINSON'S DISEASE
- PATIENT-CONTROLLED ANALGESIA
- PATIENT SELF-DETERMINATION
- PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE
- PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE
- PERIPHERALLY INSERTED CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER INSERTION ANDCARE.
- PERITONEAL DIALYSIS
- PERITONITIS
- PET THERAPY
- PLEURAL EFFUSION AND EMPYEMA
- PNEUMONIA
- POLYPHARMACY
- POTASSIUM DEFICIENCY
- POTASSIUM EXCESS
- POWER OF ATTORNEY
- PRAYER AND MENTAL HEALING
- PRESBYCUSIS
- PRESSURE ULCER PREVENTION
- PRESSURE ULCERS
- PRIVACY
- PROSTATE CANCER
- PROSTATECTOMY
- PULMONARY EDEMA
- RADIATION THERAPY
- RECTAL MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
- REFUSAL OF TREATMENT
- RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS
- RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS
- RESTRAINT USE
- RETINAL DETACHMENT
- RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
- SEPTIC SHOCK
- SEXUALITY
- SLEEP PATTERN DISTURBANCES
- SPECIALTY BEDS
- SPEECH THERAPY
- SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
- STRESS
- SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTIONS
- SUBDURAL HEMATOMA
- SUCTIONING
- SUICIDE
- SURGICAL WOUND MANAGEMENT
- TEACHING THE ELDERLY ADULT
- TENS THERAPY
- THERAPEUTIC BATH
- THORACOTOMY
- THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY
- TOPICAL MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
- TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION
- TRACHEOSTOMY CARE
- TRACHEOTOMY
- TRANSDERMAL MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
- TRANSFER TECHNIQUES
- TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK
- TUBERCULOSIS
- URINARY DIVERSION SURGERY
- URINARY INCONTINENCE
- URINARY TRACT INFECTION, LOWER
- URINE SPECIMEN COLLECTION
- VAGINAL MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION
- VALVULOPLASTY, BALLOON
- VASCULAR ACCESS PORT MANAGEMENT
- WOUND DEHISCENCE
- WOUND IRRIGATION
- YOGA THERAPY
- APPENDIX A PHYSIOLOGIC CHANGES IN AGING
- APPENDIX B LABORATORY VALUE CHANGES IN ELDERLY PATIENTS
- APPENDIX C LEVELS OF CARE
- APPENDIX D USING ANTIPSYCHOTICS IN LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES
- APPENDIX E USING ANXIOLYTICS AND SEDATIVES IN LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES
- APPENDIX F UNNECESSARY DRUGS IN LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES
- APPENDIX G PREVENTING ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS IN OLDER PATIENTS
- APPENDIX H ADVERSE REACTIONS MISINTERPRETED AS AGE-RELATED CHANGES
- APPENDIX I RESOURCES FOR GERIATRIC CARE
- SELECTED REFERENCES.
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4698-8079-2
- OCLC:
- 913799422
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