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, TABLE OF CONTENTS
How to Use This Course 2
Course Objectives 4
Introduction 5
Chapter I The Nursing Process: Geriatric Assessment 10
Chapter II Psychological Assessment 31
Chapter III Physical Assessment & Recording the Findings 42
Chapter IV The Nurse‐Patient Helping Relationship 55
Chapter V The Characteristics and Crisis of Later Maturity 64
Chapter VI Drug Therapies for the Elderly Client 82
References 85
Course Test 87
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, Course Objectives
Upon completion of this program, each participant will be able to:
1. Define the term, “Later Maturity” rather than using the term “Old
Age” as the last developmental stage
2. Name and describe the stereotypes and attitudes used in
describing and dealing with elderly clients
3. Explain how personal values, attitudes and feelings about the
elderly, will affect the behavior of people toward the elderly
4. Name and describe at least two methods of effective
communications that allow the nurse to obtain a good nursing
history during the assessment process
5. Name at least two interventions that can be useful for
individualizing the nursing care for the elderly client
6. Name and discuss at least two characteristics of the helping
relationship
7. Name at least two behaviors that indicates a helping relationship
for the elderly patient
8. Name and describe at least five physical changes that commonly
occur in later life
9. Name and describe at least two ways in which the nurse can
intervene supportively, using self, environmental, or physical aids,
to help the senior maintain or regain cognitive competency
10. Name and describe at least one method of exploring the
meaning of death and personal attitudes toward dying, death and
the maintenance of life
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