NRSE 4560 - Gerontologic Nursing Care

• Apply comprehensive and focused physical, behavioral, psychological, spiritual, socioeconomic, and environmental assessments of health and illness parameters in older adults, using developmentally and culturally appropriate approaches.
• Apply outcomes to evaluate the effectiveness of psychobiological interventions for older adults.
• Compare and contrast the major biological, psychological and sociological theories of aging.
• Describe the nursing role of advocacy in relation to legal, health and economic issues of concern to the aged, frail and vulnerable older adult.
• Discuss factors that create a healthy, fulfilling life in later adulthood.
• Discuss nursing care that contributes to safe and high quality patient outcomes within care settings for older adults.
• Examine holistic, patient-centered care that reflects an understanding of development, pathophysiology, pharmacology, medical management, and nursing management across the health-illness continuum, in older adults.
• Explore delivery of compassionate, patient-centered, evidence-based care that respects patient and family preferences for older adults.
• Identify nursing strategies and evidence-based practices that have been used to maintain maximum function and comfort in the older adult with a chronic disease.
• Identify the impact of culture and family values in providing quality end-of-life care for older adults.