- UNIQUE! Nursing Care Plans follow the nursing process and include Critical Thinking Questions at the end of each plan.
- UNIQUE! Key Points at the end of chapters summarize chapter highlights.
- Clear, concise writing throughout, makes the content easily understandable and consistent.
- Nursing Process sections in each appropriate chapter provides a strong framework for the discussion of the nursing care of the elderly patient as related to specific disorders.
- UNIQUE! Nursing Interventions grouped according to health care setting (e.g. acute care, extended care, home care) allow you to see how care may be adapted and/or modified depending on the setting.
- UNIQUE! Patient Teaching boxes instruct and inform both elderly patients and their caregivers about health promotion, disease prevention, and age-specific interventions.
- UNIQUE! Complementary and Alternative Therapies boxes for geriatric patients provide valuable information on pain management through nonpharmocologic therapies.
- Clinical Situations boxes include patient scenarios in the clinical setting, preparing you for patient care in the real world.
- UNIQUE! Delegation Considerations boxes address such topics as restraints, elder abuse, and end-of-life care as related to responsibilities of nursing assistants and other health care workers who are supervised by LPN/LVNs.
- UNIQUE! Critical Thinking boxes stress important content-related points and pose questions designed to stimulate further discussion.
- Cultural Considerations boxes provide advice on culturally diverse patient care of older adults.
- Includes content on ethical and legal issues in end-of-life care (including separate chapter that addresses pain management and palliative care in both the institutional and home settings).
- UNIQUE! Perforated Student Activities workbook at the back of the book includes a variety of matching, multiple-choice, study questions, case studies with critical thinking questions, and Internet activities.
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