Ch 7 Flashcards
Flu vaccine frequency
Annually
Hearing and vision
Annually
When to get shingles vaccine
Age 50
When to get pneumonococcal vaccine
Age 65
When to get tetanus booster
Every 10 years
Empowering the elderly
Play yo their strengths
Promote independence
Holistic Geron. Care
Integrating physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual needs
Promote health through body, mind, and spirit
Maximize life despite illness
Provide peace and dignity nearing death
Holistic assessment
Identifies needs related to health promotion and health challenges
Identifies requirements to fulfill those needs
Health promotion needs
Physiological balance
Connection-family, friendship, spirituality
Gratification-purpose, dignity
health challenges-needs
Education: new diagnosis
Counseling: dealing with emotions and adjusting
Coaching: improve compliance and motivation
Monitoring: track progress and needs
Coordination: Care from entire healthcare team
Therapies: conventional and complimentary
Advocacy
Requirements to meet needs
Physical, mental, and socioeconomic ability
-range of nursing interventions
Knowledge, experience, and skills
-nursing considerations for enhancing self care
Desire and decision to take action
-Values, attitude, and beliefs established
-Rights of individual respected
Geron. Nursing Process
Evaluate effectiveness in meeting needs related to health promotion and challenges
Assess ability of self care
Direct nursing interventions at empowering older adults
-improve self care
-reduce or eliminate limitations in self care
-provide direct care
Nursing process
Review slide 14
Requirements to meet needs are very important
Examples of application
Implement actions for health condition
New health challenges bring new needs
Assess new challenge impact on self care capacity
Promote health and manage new challenges with new interventions
Healer role of nurses
Nurses are not just task doers. Nurses Important in healing process.
Nursing interactions help patients become whole again
