Knowledge of Ghanaian Graduating Undergraduate Nurses About Ageing
SAGE Open Nursing, 2021 Introduction Knowledge on ageing has an impact on the quality of care provided to older people. Although older Ghanaians provide various forms of support to family and communities, many of them experience poor nursing care in the Ghanaian health system ...
Confidence Alorse Atakro MN
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Effectiveness of the project-based learning program on Thai nursing student competency for elderly care in the community [PDF]
Journal of Health Research, 2021 Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the Thai nursing student competency enhancement program applied through project-based learning (PjBL) in caring for the elderly in the community.
Suda Hanklang, Suleegorn Sivasan
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Caregiver Integration During Discharge Planning for Older Adults to Reduce Resource Use: A Metaanalysis [PDF]
, 2017 Objectives To determine the effect of integrating informal caregivers into discharge planning on postdischarge cost and resource use in older adults. Design A systematic review and metaanalysis of randomized controlled trials that examine the effect of ...
Begg +27 more
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Elderly in the labor market: implications for gerontological nursing
Revista de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2018 Aim: to reflect on the determinant aspects to the maintenance/reinsertion of the elderly in the labor market, considering the implications to gerontological nursing.
Lucimara Sonaglio Rocha +5 more
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The Challenge in Gerontological Nursing
Nursing Forum, 1977 Anna M. Brock, Ann S. Madison
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Psychometric Properties of the Family Caregiver Delirium Knowledge Questionnaire [PDF]
, 2015 A valid, reliable measure of family caregivers’ knowledge about delirium was not located in the literature; such an instrument is essential to assess learning needs and outcomes of education provided. The purpose of the current study was to (a) develop a
Arbuckle +14 more
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International Journal of Nursing Studies, 1983 Gerontological nursing has lain almost dormant in academia like a sleeping giant waiting its turn for nurses’ attention. The burgeoning elderly population forecast by sociologists, and their corresponding health care needs, forecast by gerontological nursing pioneers, has arrived. Full credit is given to those faculty members and nurses in practice and
College of Nursing, J. Hillis Miller Health Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, U.S.A. ( host institution ) +1 more
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Gerontological nursing: professional priority or eternal Cinderella? [PDF]
, 1997 Over thirty years ago geriatric nursing, as it was then called, was at the forefront of nursing research in the United Kingdom. Concurrent with the emergence of geriatric medicine as a distinct speciality, the pioneering study of Doreen Norton and ...
Nolan, M.
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Strategies for Sustaining Self Used by Family Caregivers for Older Adults With Dementia [PDF]
, 2013 The negative health consequences of caring for an older adult family member with dementia are well documented. However, not all family caregivers experience these negative health consequences. The purposes of this study were to describe strategies family
Bull, Margaret J.
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Provider Perspectives on the Influence of Family on Nursing Home Resident Transfers to the Emergency Department: Crises at the End of Life. [PDF]
, 2015 Background. Nursing home (NH) residents often experience burdensome and unnecessary care transitions, especially towards the end of life. This paper explores provider perspectives on the role that families play in the decision to transfer NH residents to
Bui, Nhat +6 more
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