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Laws affecting Senior Citizens/Older Persons

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(RA 7432; RA 9257; RA 9994)

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an approach that improves the quality of life of patients (adults and children) and their families who are facing problems associated with life-threatening illness

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Palliative Care

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Ethico-Legal Considerations in the Care of Older Adults

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Advance Directives/DNR
End-of-life care
Care of the Dying and the Dead
Spirituality among Older Persons
Ethical Dilemmas

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to motivate and encourage the senior citizens to contribute to nation building; to encourage their families and the communities they live with to reaffirm the valued Filipino tradition of caring for the senior citizens.

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RA 7432

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AN ACT GRANTING ADDITIONAL BENEFITS AND PRIVILEGES TO SENIOR CITIZENS AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7432,

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[REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9257]

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“Senior citizens who have the capacity and desire to work, or be re-employed, shall be provided information and matching services to enable them to be productive members of society.

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RA 9994

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Responsibilities of Nurses in LTC

ADGCNM

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Administrative & management
Direct care provider
Guardian of care/ advocacy
Care coordinator
Numerous other roles
MDS

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Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)

BDETT

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Bathing
Dressing
Eating
Toileting
Transferring

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Average resident needs help with

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4 ADLs)q

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Care of those persons requiring health care, personal care, social and supportive services over a sustained period of time”

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Long- Term Care

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For individuals with the capacity for independent self-care

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Preventive Services

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For individuals with partial limitations in self-care capacity. Therapeutic demands that require

occasional assistance, or both

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Partial and intermittent care services

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For individuals with partial or total limitations in self-care capacity and therapeutic demands that require regular or occasional

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Complete and continuous care services

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Services provided by communities

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Preventive Services

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Services provided by communities and institutions

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Partial and intermittent care services-

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Services provided by institutions

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Complete and continuous care services

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5 Rights of Delegation for RNs

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Right task
Right circumstances
Right person
Right Direction/Communication
Right supervision/ evaluation

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Disturbance in structure or function resulting from physiologic or psychologic abnormalities

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Impairment

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Degree of observable and measureable impairment

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Disability

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Nursing Diagnoses

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Aspiration, risk for
Airway clearance, ineffective
Gas exchange, impaired
Cardiac output, decreased
Nutrition: less than body requirements

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the time course by which the body absorbs, distributes, metabolizes, and excretes drugs

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Pharmacokinetics

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e time course and effect of drugs on cellular and organ function.

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Pharmacodynamics

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Adverse reactions of:
Anticholinergics

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Urinary retention

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Adverse reactions of:
B blockers, opioids

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Bronchoconstriction, respiratory depression

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Adverse reactions of:
Anticholinergics, opiod

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Increased confusion, delirium

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Adverse reactions of:
antihypertensive, corticosteroids

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Precipitation or exacerbation of depression

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Adverse reactions of:
corticosteriods

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Hyperglycemia

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Adverse reactions of:
NSAIDs

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Increase bp

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Adverse reactions of:
Digoxin

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Cardiac arrhythmias

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Adverse reactions of:
Oral hypoglycemics

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Decrease sodium concent

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Adverse reactions of:
Antipsychotics

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Worsening movement disorder

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Defined as the prescription, administration, or use of more medications than are clinically indicated in a given patient.

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Polypharmacy

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Nursing Intervention to Prevent Polypharmacy

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Eliminate drugs with NO benefit or indication
Avoiding the urge to treat a drug interaction with another drug

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Questions to Ask to Avoid Inappropriate Prescribing for Elderly Patients

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reatment necessary?

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Four medications are commonly used in patients with symptoms of mild to moderate Alzheimer’s dementia.

CARE

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Tacrine (Cognex)
Donepezil (Aricept)
Rivastigmine tartrate (Exelon)
Galantamine (Reminyl)

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Medications for Osteoporosis

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Antiresorptive-
Anabolic, or bone-forming, agents.-

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slow the rate of bone remodeling, but cannot rebuild bone. Example: HRT

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Antiresorptive-

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ncluded in this category are parathyroid hormone and fluoride

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Anabolic, or bone-forming, agents.

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multidisciplinary approach and specialized medical care for people with serious illness.

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Palliative care

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ntended to provide written expressions of a patient’s wishes regarding the use of medical treatments in the event of a terminal illness or condition.

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Living wills or Designation of Health Care Agents

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specific order from a physician, entered on the physician order sheet, which instructs health care providers not to use or order specific methods of therapy, which are referred to as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

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Do not resuscitate (DNR)

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legal instrument by which a person may designate someone else to make health care decisions at a time in the future when he or she may be rendered incompetent.

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Durable power of attorney for health care (DPAHC)

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deliberate administration of a medication in a dosage that will suppress respiration and cause death, or administering heavy doses of pain medications needed to comfort a terminally ill patient

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euthanasia

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PHYSICAL CHANGES AFTER DEATH

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Loss of skin elasticity
Algor mortis
Livor mortis
Rigor mortis

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Nurse reminder: elevate head of the bed and a clean pillow placed under head before

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beginning activity

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defined as the emotional process of coping with a loss

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Grief

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emotional,cognitive, social, physical, behavioural and spiritual responses to loss and death

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Normal grief: complex

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associated with the normal grief response before the loss actually occurs

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Anticipatory grief:

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absence of evidence of grief when it ordinarily would be expected

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Delayed or inhibited grief:

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grieving are exaggerated

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Distorted (exaggerated) grief: symptoms associated with normal

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maintaining personal possessions aimed at keeping a lost loved one alive

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Chronic or prolonged grief:

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when relationship to the deceased person is not socially sanctioned

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Disenfranchised grief:

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when the lost person is physically present but not psychologically available,e.g-severe dementia

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Ambiguous loss:

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prolonged or significantly difficult time moving forward after a loss

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Complicated grief:

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disruptive behaviour due to loss and ineffective grief resolution

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Masked grief

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FACTORS INFLUENCING GRIEF

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Human development,
Personal relationship,
Nature of the loss,
Coping strategies,
Socioeconomic status,
Culture and ethnicity,
Spiritual and religious belief

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Intrusion of grief
Breaking bonds/ties
Grief work of restoration
Denial/avoidance change

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Loss oriented

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Attending to life changes
Doing new things
Distraction from grief
Denial avoidance of grief
New roles, identities/ relationships

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Restoration oriented

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Requires that no harm be caused to an individual, either unintentionally or deliberately

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Nonmaleficence

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This principle means “doing good” for others

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Beneficence

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