Gerontological Nursing: The Essential Guide to Clinical Practice (2e)

The second edition of Patricia Tabloski’s Gerontological Nursing is a comprehensive, research-based text that will guide nursing students in their care of older patients. The text presents information related to normal and pathological changes of aging, with an emphasis on the critical information that nurses need for assessment, diagnosis, planning and evaluating care outcomes for their older clients.  Bolstered by current research in nursing, medicine, sociology and psychology, this book combines information on medical-surgical care for older patients with issues facing the older population.  It emphasizes both critical thinking and application of the nursing process to give students the confidence they need to provide the highest level of care. 

Unit One Foundations of Nursing Practice,  1
1. Principles of Gerontology,  2
2. Gerontological Nursing Issues,  27
3. Principles of Geriatrics,  54
Unit Two Challenges of Aging and the Cornerstones of Excellence in Nursing Care,  83
4. Cultural Diversity,  84
5. Nutrition and Aging,  110
6. Pharmacology and Older Adults,  155
7. Psychological and Cognitive Function,  188
8. Sleep and the Older Adult,  224
9. Pain Management,  249
10. Violence and Elder Mistreatment,  271
11. Care of the Dying,  293
Unit Three Physiological Basis of Practice,  327
12. The Integument,  328
13. The Mouth and Oral Cavity,  365
14. Sensation: Hearing, Vision, Taste, Touch, and Smell,  383
15. The Cardiovascular System,  421
16. The Respiratory System,  459
17. The Genitourinary and Renal Systems,  517
18. The Musculoskeletal System,  551
19. The Endocrine System,  600
20. The Gastrointestinal System,  642
21. The Hematologic System,  684
22. The Neurologic System,  711
23. The Immune System,  754
24. Multisystem Problems: Caring for Frail Elders With Comorbidities,  787
Appendix A,  819
Appendix B,  821
Index,  831

 

New to this edition:  

• NEW!  Complementary and Alternative Therapies help readers understand therapies that can supplement traditional medicine.
• UPDATED! Normal Changes of Aging – Each of the clinically based chapters covers the normal changes of aging as a basis for the nursing assessment and care to follow. Full-color illustrations and photographs complement the text, allowing for a more meaningful synthesis of information.
• UPDATED Drug Alerts and Clinical Pearls supply students with crucial information and call attention to key issues.
• UPDATED NANDA Nursing Diagnoses are suggested for each of the common diseases presented in order to help students categorize the nursing problems that accompany the medical diagnoses. Each nursing diagnosis forms the basis for the suggestions for nursing interventions that follow.
• Nursing Care Plans in each chapter are used to illustrate the nursing process. A case study is used to tie together content described in the chapter and provide an example of various nursing interventions and the planning and imple-mentation of nursing care.
• UPDATED Critical Thinking Exercises follow the case studies, encouraging the student to engage in additional learning activities that stimulate and support learning.  Answers to these exercises are found in Appendix B of this book.

• Normal Changes of Aging — Each of the clinically based chapters covers the normal changes of aging as a basis for the nursing assessment and care to follow. Full-color illustrations and photographs complement the text, allowing for a more meaningful synthesis of information.
• Common Diseases of Aging — Each clinical chapter emphasizes the common diseases (acute and chronic) that afflict older people, nursing implications of these diseases, atypical presentation of disease in older persons, functional im-plications of these diseases, pharmacological treatment, and evaluation of care. Etiology, risk factors, function, and complications are included.
• Drug Alerts and Clinical Pearls supply students with crucial information and call attention to key issues.
• Best Practices feature presents a recommendation from the Hartford Institute of Geriatric Nursing for an assessment instrument, protocol, or nursing intervention that recommends the best practice for an older patient with the particular health problem under discussion.
• NANDA Nursing Diagnoses are suggested for each of the common diseases presented in order to help students categorize the nursing problems that accompany the medical diagnoses. Each nursing diagnosis forms the basis for the suggestions for nursing interventions that follow.
• Patient and Family Teaching Guidelines include sample questions and answers an older patient and his or her family may pose when receiving care for a particular problem. 
• Nursing Care Plans in each chapter are used to illustrate the nursing process. A case study is used to tie together content described in the chapter and provide an example of various nursing interventions and the planning and imple-mentation of nursing care.
• Critical Thinking Exercises follow the case studies, encouraging the student to engage in additional learning activities that stimulate and support learning.  Answers to these exercises are found in Appendix B of this book. 
• Chapter Highlights are listed at the end of each chapter. Students will find it helpful to read these highlights before reading the chapter in order to focus their attention. These are also a useful tool to quickly review the chapter content.
  
  

PATRICIA A. TABLOSKI, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, FGSA
Patricia Tabloski possesses three degrees in nursing. She received her BSN from Purdue University, her MSN from Seton Hall University, and her PhD from the University of Rochester. As a gerontological nurse practitioner, Dr. Tabloski has provided primary care to older patients in a variety of settings, including acute care facilities, geriatric outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities, and hospice programs. She has taught graduate and undergraduate stu-dents about gerontology since 1981 and presently is the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and a faculty mem-ber at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College. In 2002, Dr. Tabloski was honored as a Fellow in the Gerontological Society of America. She has numerous publications and presentations relating to gerontologi-cal nursing and has lectured internationally in Hungary, China, and the United Kingdom. Dr. Tabloski has chaired the Test Development Committee for the Gerontological Nurse Practitioner examination by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and is a member of the American Nurses Association, the Gerontological Society of America, the American Geriatrics Society, the National Organization of Nurse Practitioners Faculties, Sigma Theta Tau, and the Eastern Nursing Research Society. Dr. Tabloski is a federally funded researcher and conducts clinically based outcome studies relating to nonpharmacological interventions designed to improve sleep and ease agitation in older persons in community and institutional settings.  Additionally, Dr. Tabloski has received federal funding to establish an Advanced Practice Nursing Program in Palliative Care. 

 

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