This innovative model has helped reduce falls and pressure ulcers, and RN turnover rates have dropped as well.
To make drug use safer in older adults, nurses must take complete medication histories, report suspected reactions to the FDA, and take a holistic view of our patients’ health status.
A new study finds that ED diversion is associated with increased mortality.
Increase your ability to recognize aortic aneurysms and provide postop care.
For homeless people, chronic illnesses can be hard to manage. Here’s what you should know about assessing these patients and developing a practical discharge plan.
This progressive degenerative spine condition is commonly mistaken for
arthritis. This article covers assessment and management, including preop and postop care.
When an elderly patient becomes confused and agitated, a careful history of recent procedures and medications points clinicians in the right direction.
Make sure your care of patients with community-acquired pneumonia is evidence-based and up-to-date.
When a dehydrated patient falls into a stupor and her vital signs head south, a rapid response team can help unit nurses stabilize her quickly – and avoid the semmingly inevitable.
Don’t assume depression is a normal finding in elderly patients.
A patient who collapsed at home arrives at the hospital with a blood glucose level off the charts, plus extreme thirst and polyuria. Think his diagnosis is cut and dried? Think again.
Read up on the latest evidence-based best practices in pain management.
Web Exclusive! An update of drug news, including alerts, approvals, and removals, at www.AmericanNurseToday.com/journal.
An update of drug news, including alerts, approvals, and removals.
An update of drug news, including alerts, approvals, and removals.
Web Exclusive! An update of drug news, including alerts, approvals, and removals at www.AmericanNurseToday.com/journal.
Alzheimer’s disease afflicts not just the person who has it but everyone in that person’s orbit. Learn how to help family members caring for patients with this nursing research.
How to assess the integumentary and musculoskeletal systems, head, neck, face, and functional status
The more you know about menopause, the more you can help patients understand and cope with symptoms.
This rare and sometimes hard-to-detect condition can jeopardize your patient’s life and limb.
Quantum nursing demands that nurses honor each person’s
humanity, promote independence and autonomy, and offer the
opportunity for individuals to redefine for themselves who they are and how they choose to live.
Dolls can work wonders on geriatric dementia patients.
Innovative information technology tools help ensure patients get the right care at the right time.
The author provides tips for preventing falls.
How to use auscultation to distiguish sinus bradycardia from complete heart block in geriatric patients.
Discusses the problem of when it’s unsafe for an older person to drive.
Chronic pain has widespread effects on older adults. This article describes how to help patients manage it.
Multiple factors make the elderly susceptible to dysphagia. The author reviews
multidisciplinary management approaches and offers a checklist of simple nursing actions to promote assessment and management.
An often-missed diagnosis, this condition may mimic certain types of dementia.
The National Institute of Nursing Research is studying ways to promote better outcomes for patients with chronic pain.
Most elderly men don’t know they are at risk for osteoporosis-and they probably won’t find out until a nurse tells them.
Pain, arthritis, fractures, and skeletal deformities are calling cards of Paget’s disease. A new one-dose drug therapy can produce extended remission.
Roughly half of adults ages 65 and older drink alcohol. Although experts continue to debate the possible health benefits of alcohol when consumed in minimal daily amounts, alcohol’s health risks in adults too often are overlooked by both family members and healthcare professionals.
Author Leah Curtin analyzes the ethics of a case of confusion and restraints.
Ready or not, we’re on the brink of a senior healthcare crisis.
These six drug profiles, along with the six in the March issue of American Nurse Today, bring you up to date on significant advances in drug therapy.
Learn how to identify elder abuse and what to do if you suspect abuse.
Osteoporosis and low bone mass affect about 44 million Americans. Women account for 80% of that number. And each year, more than 1.5 million Americans suffer osteoporotic fractures.
An update on risk factors, prevention, and treatment.
A monthly round up of clinical, practice, and career news, updates, and alerts.
People older than age 50 account for at least 10% of HIV/AIDS cases in this country. Yet myths about older adults' behavior can blind us to the possibility that an older patient has AIDS. We need to learn more about older adults' sexuality and teach them about risky behaviors.
Medicare’s prescription drug program recuperates from its rocky debut; ANA endorses the Medicare Quality Enhancement Act.
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