Provide holistic, compassionate nursing care for older adults! Based on evidence-based protocols, Toward Healthy Aging, 11th Edition, (PDF) helps you master gerontological nursing skills with an approach that focuses on health, wholeness, and the potential in aging. In promoting healthy aging, the ebook emphasizes caring and respecting the person. Special sections provide an honest look at the universal experience of aging. Written by gerontological nursing experts Theris Touhy and Kathleen Jett, this classic textbook helps you learn to apply scientific research, build critical thinking skills, and prepare for success on the NCLEX® exam and in clinical practice.
- Healthy People boxes reference the goals cited in Healthy People 2020.
- Research Questions include suggestions and ideas for pursuing nursing research.
- Key concepts provide a concise review of the most critical points found in each chapter.
- Tips for Best Practice boxes summarize evidence-based nursing interventions for practice.
- Research Highlights boxes summarize important research studies in the field of gerontology.
- Safety Alerts emphasize QSEN competencies and safety issues related to the care of older adults.
- Critical Thinking Questions and Activities help you apply concepts and build clinical judgment skills.
- Learning objectives in every chapter introduce important content and define learning goals and expectations.
- Nursing Studies provide practice examples to assist you in assessing, planning, interventions, and outcomes to promote healthy aging.
- Promoting Healthy Aging: Implications for Gerontological Nursing sections help you apply concepts to assessments and interventions.
- A Student Speaks, and An Elder Speaks sections at the beginning of every chapter provide perspectives of older people and nursing students.
- NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) examination-style case studies at the end of chapters include questions to help you prepare for the NGN exam.
- NEW! Completely updated content helps you develop clinical judgment skills, identified by the NCSBN and the AACN as a key attribute of professional nursing.
- NEW! Updated topics include COPD guidelines, theories of aging, medication use and misuse, palliative care, wound care guidelines, genomic research, and LGBT family relationships and sexuality in older adults.
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NOTE: This sale only includes the ebook Toward Healthy Aging: Human Needs and Nursing Response 11th Edition in PDF. No access codes are included.
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