Essentials of Gerontological Nursing by Meredith Wallace

Essentials of Gerontological Nursing



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Essentials of Gerontological Nursing Meredith Wallace
Language: English
Page: 352
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0826120520, 9780826120533
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From the Back Cover

Essentials of Gerontological Nursing presents the best practices needed to care for older adults. It's brief, yet comprehensive, grasp of issues in elder care is a refreshing addition to the current literature, which is more commonly focused on theory than on clinical practice. Designed primarily for students in gerontological nursing courses in BSN and graduate programs, the book provides: Essential clinical information and "best practices" needed to care for older adults Current research and new patient approaches in gerontological nursing Overviews of rarely discussed issues, such as elder abuse, cultural considerations, and restraint alternatives Clinical specifications and practical applications Content designed to fit into a one-semester course

Essentials of Gerontological Nursing is everything the nursing student needs to know when caring for older adults.

About the Author

Meredith Wallace, PhD, APRN-BC, is currently the Elizabeth DeCamp McInerney Chair of Health Sciences and Associate Professor at Fairfield University School of Nursing in Fairfield, CT, where she teaches gerontological nursing, community health, and nursing research. In September 2007, she will be moving to Yale University. From 2002 to 2005, Dr. Wallace was coordinator of the Adult Nurse Practitioner trace, and she has maintained her ANP role by working in an assisted living community and other settings, currently in a primary care practice with a physician.

Her undergraduate degree (BSN) is from Boston University, her master's in medical-surgical nursing with a specialty in geriatrics is from Yale University, and her PhD in nursing research and theory development is from New York University. While at NYU, Dr. Wallace received a predoctoral fellowship at the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. In 2004, she received the junior investigator award from the Eastern Nursing Research Society/John A. Hartford Foundation. She has served as managing editor for the Journal of Applied Nursing Research and research brief editor more recently, and she was associate editor of the Geriatric Nursing Research Digest.

Dr. Wallace is a cherished Springer Publishing author, having co-edited (with Lorrie Powel) Prostate Cancer: Nursing Assessment, Management, and Care (2002) and co-edited (with Joyce J. Fitzpatrick) the Encyclopedia of Nursing Research, now in its second edition (2005).

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