Geriatric Nursing Research Digest

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Reviewer: M. Kay Cresci, PhD, RN, APRN(Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing)
Description: The editors of this book provide nurses with current scientific knowledge to provide high quality evidence-based care through identifying and describing both classic and most recent research on 100 topics addressing healthcare for older adults. These topics cross the continuum of care from health promotion to respectful dying and include issues related function, culture, care across settings, caregivers, common stresses, pathological conditions, and cognition. Researchers who are experts in the topic area and are in the forefront of geriatric nursing write each entry. The content from this digest can assist nurses in identifying proven ways to enhance the healthcare of older adults.
Purpose: The aim is to create an important resource tool for nurses caring for older adults and to achieve the highest level of science possible. Each entry is a concise synopsis of significant research in the selected areas. Not only will nurses develop evidence-based practice but they will also learn to identify focus areas for further research.
Audience: The target audiences include students, clinicians, and researchers. The editors help student understand the field of geriatric nursing and assist advanced students, clinicians, and researchers in formulating research questions to further the science of evidence based practice.
Features: The book is divided into six parts: health promotion and risk reduction, normalcy throughout the life span, issues in environment care, geriatric emotional health, pathological conditions, and neurobehavioral issues in older adults. The section on normalcy throughout the life span functions as a window into what are now considered characteristics of aging and the factors that influence them. Current research related to the functional aspects of and deviations in normalcy within the aging process are described. Topics discussed include such areas as activities of daily living, nutrition, medications, cultural influences, and grief. An excellent feature of this book is the succinct style used to describe the most significant research in each, area as well as suggested areas for further research.
Assessment: This book is a unique contribution to the field of geriatric nursing. It contains a synopsis of classic and current geriatric nursing research that is useful to both clinicians and researchers. The introduction to each of the six parts is a description of how entries are relevant to clinical practice. Each entry represents the scientific evidence that can guide future research and professional nursing care.

M. Kay Cresci

The editors of this book provide nurses with current scientific knowledge to provide high quality evidence-based care through identifying and describing both classic and most recent research on 100 topics addressing healthcare for older adults. These topics cross the continuum of care from health promotion to respectful dying and include issues related function, culture, care across settings, caregivers, common stresses, pathological conditions, and cognition. Researchers who are experts in the topic area and are in the forefront of geriatric nursing write each entry. The content from this digest can assist nurses in identifying proven ways to enhance the healthcare of older adults. The aim is to create an important resource tool for nurses caring for older adults and to achieve the highest level of science possible. Each entry is a concise synopsis of significant research in the selected areas. Not only will nurses develop evidence-based practice but they will also learn to identify focus areas for further research. The target audiences include students, clinicians, and researchers. The editors help student understand the field of geriatric nursing and assist advanced students, clinicians, and researchers in formulating research questions to further the science of evidence based practice. The book is divided into six parts: health promotion and risk reduction, normalcy throughout the life span, issues in environment care, geriatric emotional health, pathological conditions, and neurobehavioral issues in older adults. The section on normalcy throughout the life span functions as a window into what are now considered characteristics of aging and the factors that influence them.Current research related to the functional aspects of and deviations in normalcy within the aging process are described. Topics discussed include such areas as activities of daily living, nutrition, medications, cultural influences, and grief. An excellent feature of this book is the succinct style used to describe the most significant research in each, area as well as suggested areas for further research. This book is a unique contribution to the field of geriatric nursing. It contains a synopsis of classic and current geriatric nursing research that is useful to both clinicians and researchers. The introduction to each of the six parts is a description of how entries are relevant to clinical practice. Each entry represents the scientific evidence that can guide future research and professional nursing care.

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