description: -- Focuses on caring for the elderly in long term care, providing nursing faculty with a mechanism for meeting the NLN's directive for covering gerontologic nursing care-- Discusses normal physiologic changes of aging and describes their impact on assessment findings in the elderly-- Defines and explains responsibilities, regulation, and management of long term care facilities, with an emphasis on the differences in RN and LPN/LVN roles-- Describes the differences in documentation in long term care facilities and presents examples of several completed forms in appendices-- Discusses how the nurse prevents, assesses, and intervenes for common health problems experienced by the elderly in long term care facilities-- Defines and explains the nurse's role as a manager in long term care facilities
language: English
title: Introduction to Long Term Care Nursing: Principles and Practice
titlecomplete: Introduction to Long Term Care Nursing: Principles and Practice
publisher: F. A. Davis Company