The ultimate long-term care nursing resource is here!
This is the most comprehensive long-term care nursing tool I have ever seen. It is like you have read the minds of long-term care nursing, staff educators and administrative nursing staff and knew what would be a great reference for saving time and finding standards and answers. I can see it being used every day by long-term care nurses and Directors of Nursing. It is wonderful to finally have a reference at my fingertips that has so much valuable information all together.
Kelly Smith Papa, RN, BSN
McLean Nursing Facility, Simsbury, CT
The one resource your nursing staff will turn to every working day . . .
Chances are, your long-term care nurses haven't been able to find a single reference tool to address all of their unique and wide-ranging concerns - until now.
That's why HCPro, Inc. — the long-term care information specialist — is proud to present The Long-Term Care Nursing Desk Reference, a first-of-its kind manual and CD-ROM set!
The answers to all your clinical, regulatory, and procedural questions — and more . . .
From pain assessment methods to intravenous drip calculations, The Long-Term Care Nursing Desk Reference offers long-term care nurses virtually every tool they need to provide high-quality, regulation-compliant, long-term resident care.
Additional resources available on the companion CD-ROM!
Fully searchable and user-friendly, the CD-ROM provides additional resources — including forms, tools, policies, procedures, and clinical guidelines — as well as expanded and enhanced coverage of the topics covered in the text. You can easily navigate from one topic to another with just the click of a mouse!
Included at no additional charge!
From an expert you can trust . . .
Written by accomplished author and speaker Barbara Acello, MS, RN, this authoritative reference is jam-packed with practical, need-to-know patient care information, essential policies and procedures, and vital regulatory and safety requirements. In short, The Long-Term Care Nursing Desk Reference is the book you and your nurses have been waiting for!
Take a look at what's inside!
1. Standards of practice - Standards of care
- American Nurses Association Position Statement on Long-Term Care
- The nursing process
2. Personal and professional practice issues - Protecting yourself legally
- Lawsuit prevention checklist
- Nursing licensure board investigations
3. Assessment - Long-term care facility laws
- The Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Admission nursing assessment
- Physical assessment of the geriatric resident
- Assessing pain in the elderly
- Pain management in long-term care: Sample policy
- Substance abuse signs and symptoms
- Geriatric depression scale
- Resident monitoring and ongoing care
4. Pressure ulcers - Risk factors for pressure ulcer development
- Prevention measures
- Pressure ulcer stages
- Pressure ulcer management
- Preventing wound infection
- Pressure ulcer colonization and infection
- Identifying residents who are for risk of pressure ulcers on the feet
- Wound pain
5. Planning - The care plan
- Nursing interventions and nursing outcomes classification
6. Clinical values - Geriatric laboratory values
- Critical laboratory values
- Conversion tables
7. Medication administration - Guidelines for safe medication administration
- Facts about polypharmacy
- Drug calculation formulas
- Medication and treatment orders
- Potential drug incompatibility
- Suggested medication monitoring
- Medications that may cause cognitive impairment or delirium
- Nursing responsibilities for managing pain
- Pain management in long-term care sample policy
- Substance abuse signs and symptoms
- Appropriate and inappropriate uses for antipsychotic drugs
- Antibiotic administration
8. Intravenous therapy - Intravenous therapy guidelines
- Venipuncture tips and techniques
- Calculating intravenous drip rates
- Maintenance guidelines for intravenous catheters
9. Transcultural nursing - Culture and personal hygiene preferences
- The effect of culture on family relationships and beliefs
10. Infection control - Infection control considerations
- Guidelines for hand hygiene
- Standard precautions overview
- Guidelines for environmental infection control
- Drug resistant pathogens Prevention and control of influenza
11. Hydration - Dehydration
- Understanding hyponatremia and hypernatremia in dehydration
- Hydration management policy and procedure
- Measuring urine specific gravity to evaluate hydration
12. Nutrition - Guidelines for weighing residents
- Weight loss and malnutrition
- Determining calories needed to maintain weight
- Liquid nutritional supplements
- Dysphagia
- Liberalized diets
- Creating a restorative atmosphere in the dining area
- Sample policy and procedure for tube feeding
13. Intervention for common medical conditions and problems - Causes of delirium in the elderly
- Differentiation of delirium, depression, and dementia
- Fall-risk assessment
- Urinary incontinence
- Overview of individualized bladder management programs
- Incidence and prevalence of seizures
- Communicating with residents who have hearing loss
- Types and causes of stroke Nursing management of post-polio syndrome
14. Caring for residents with cognitive impairment and behavior problems - The ABC plan of behavior management
- Restraints
- Managing wandering behavior
- Example missing resident policy and procedure
15. Emergency intervention - Obligation of the nurse to the resident in emergency situations
- Choking procedure
- Use of oxygen in an emergency
- Suicide precautions
16. Restorative nursing care - Restorative nursing care and the OBRA 1987 legislation
- Complications of immobility
- Caring for residents after hip surgery
- Restorative Approaches to activities of daily living
- Wheelchairs
17. Nursing issues in death and dying - The Patient Self-Determination Act
- The grieving process
- Cultural/religious beliefs affecting care at the time of death
18. Documentation - Documentation standards and guidelines
- Nursing assessment and documentation guidelines
- Thinning the active medical record abbreviation problems
The information in The Long-Term Care Nursing Desk Reference is so valuable and all-inclusive, you'll wonder how you ever managed without it!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
As an independent nurse consultant and educator, Barbara Acello, MS, RN, has worked in long-term care for more than thirty-three years. In addition to owning and operating a school for nursing assistants, she helped to write and develop mandatory state curricula for nurse aides and EMTs. She has also written and/or contributed to approximately 60 textbooks, instructor guides, quick reference guides, and supplemental instructional material for healthcare personnel.
During her nursing career, Ms. Acello has worked in eight states as a director of nursing, long-term care facility consultant, and educator. Presently, she is consults, lectures, and writes on long-term care issues. She is a member of the Texas Nurses Association (TNA), American College of HealthCare Administrators (ACHCA), and National Association of Directors of Nursing in Long Term Care (NADONA). She actively mentors certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and their instructors.
With a particular interest and expertise in the clinical geriatrics, Ms. Acello's subspecialties include resident safety, pain assessment and management, restraints, pressure ulcers, and infection control. She is committed to improving working conditions, education, and professionalism for personnel in the long-term care industry.
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