Aged Care Nursing

Chapter 1: Aged Care Nursing

Overview:

Describes the necessary skills of gerontic nursing, including:

• Assessment of the elderly
• Planning care
• Implementation of appropriate care
• Evaluation of models of care

Description:
This chapter provides a basic overview of aged care nursing including the skills needed by nurses on how to assess residents and other elderly people. It also examines the skills needed to assess, analyse and plan care. Specialist aged‐care nurses need to apply their knowledge of both ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ ageing if they are to achieve optimal care of the elderly.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Knowledge base
• Skills needed by nurses
• Assessment
• Analysis
• Planning of care
• Care provision
• Models of care
• Evaluation
• Conclusion

Author:

Sue Forster

Sue Forster completed her general nurse training in the Queen Alexandra Royal Naval Nursing Service in the UK and abroad. She has extensive clinical, educational, and managerial experience at senior levels gained from a long nursing career in Europe, Australia and Africa. For the past ten years Sue has managed her own educational consultancy business. Her special interests include gerontic care, continuous quality improvement and human resource management. Sue is dedicated to the education and empowerment of her nursing colleagues through the provision of sound evidence‐based practice within a holistic framework of quality care.

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