Care for your elderly patients with compassion, competence, and sound nursing skill. Delmar's Geriatric Nursing Care Plans, Third Edition, provides detailed information for nurses caring for the aging population. The increasing number of geriatric patients and the varying areas of care delivery (home, hospital, long-term care facility, retirement community, and outpatient clinics) mean that highly skilled and competent nursing care is a must. All the information needed to develop specific and effective nursing care plans for the most commonly-seen disorders is included in this user-friendly resource. Care plans solicit specific patient data and prompt the user to customize the interventions and evaluate the patient’s individual responses to care provided.

Features:

• Introductory chapter provides an overview of how to customize a care plan to meet the needs of a specific patient.
• Contains 47 of the most commonly encountered conditions seen in the elderly populations.
• Each section begins with a description of the disorder, anticipated medical treatment, and nursing care, including interventions, rationales, and discharge and maintenance instructions.
• Body system organization helps nurses quickly locate information and disorders.
• Up-to-date North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) diagnoses are used throughout.
• Nursing Intervention Classifications (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classifications (NOC) have been added to encourage to tie care plans into established standards and also to ensure that users base their work on the most current research.
• Important relationships are presented in flowcharts to give users a visual clue and to facilitate understanding of the basis for care.
• A multi-media CD-ROM at the back of the book is fully interactive and customizable care-plan maker and provides users with the tools to create and build their own care plans!
• Home Health / Community Health content is now included within the care plans