Decision Making in Gerontologic Nursing (Clinical Decision Making)

By Paula A. Loftis

DECISION MAKING IN GERONTOLOGIC NURSING provides practicing nurses with valuable assessment and intervention strategies in the clinical setting. This practical text enhances decision-making skills through the use of unique algorithm, or decision tree, which walks the nurse through pertinent principles of anatomy and physiology, a patient's history, clinical manifestations, interventions, and patient teaching. Divided into physical, psychosocial, and functional disorders, DECISION MAKING IN GERONTOLOGIC NURSING focuses on the conditions commonly seen in elderly people.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556641869
• ISBN13: 9781556641862
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.8" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher