Gerontological Nursing: Competencies for Care: Competencies for Care

Gerontological Nursing: Competencies for Care, Fourth Edition focuses on caring for the elderly by employing a holistic and inter-disciplinary approach. The Fourth Edition will feature a greater emphasis on healthy aging and continues to follow the framework of the Core Competencies of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. This framework allows students to learn and develop all aspects of nursing care in a familiar and structured learning platform.

New to the Fourth Edition:
New chapter on disaster preparedness
Expanded content on nutrition, sexuality, dementia and care giving
Coverage of nutrition and substance abuse

• Group Process for Health Professions
• Leadership in Nursing Practice: Changing the Landscape of Health Care
• Physical Examination and Health Assessment
• Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care, Single Volume
• Community/Public Health Nursing Practice: Health for Families and Populations (Maurer, Community/ Public Health Nursing Practice)
• Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses: Appraisal and Application of Research (Schmidt, Evidence Based Practice for Nurses)
• Lippincott CoursePoint for Taylor: Fundamentals of Nursing
• Advancing Your Career: Concepts in Professional Nursing
• Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan (10th Edition) (Maternal-Newborn & Women's Health Nursing (Olds))
• Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Nursing, Eighth Edition