| Description |
xxii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. Funding and policy in residential care in Australia -- 2. Do the elderly cost more? Casemix funding in acute settings -- 3. Clinical safety and quality in residential aged care -- 4. Nursing workforce issues in aged care -- 5. Rights, regulation and aged-care practice -- 6. Care of people from indigenous and culturally diverse backgrounds -- 7. Understanding community nursing for older individuals and carers -- 8. Rural gerontic nursing in Australia -- 9. Acute care of older people: a geriatrician's perspective -- 10. Public participation and individual control -- 11. Mental health issues -- 12. Dementia, mental health and issues of abuse in aged care -- 13. The experience of chronic illness: a phenomenological approach -- 14. Medication issues -- 15. Physical restraints: can we free older people? -- 16. Palliative care -- 17. Sexuality and older people -- 18. Contemporary care planning -- 19. Evidence-based nursing: quality through research --20. Bedtimes in nursing homes: an action research approach -- 21. Current and future trends in gerontic nursing research |
| Summary |
This second edition retains the focus adopted by the first on the many issues faced by nurses working in aged care, but reflects recent changes and developments at a national level. It draws on research undertaken by the authors and looks to the ongoing research and development necessary for quality aged care. Australian authors |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: Rosebery, N.S.W. : MacLennon & Petty, 1999 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Older poeple -- Care -- Australia
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Geriatric nursing.
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Older people -- Care -- Australia.
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Geriatric nursing -- Australia.
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Geriatric Nursing.
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Health Services for the Aged.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
| Author |
Nay, Rhonda, editor
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Garratt, Sally, 1944- editor
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| LC no. |
00002506 |
| ISBN |
072953751X (paperback) |
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