Nursing Case Studies on Improving Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Adults - Meredith Wallace Kazer, Kathy Murphy

Nursing Case Studies on Improving Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Adults

Buch | Softcover
450 Seiten
2015
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-2703-7 (ISBN)
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This globally focused resource integrates sound research evidence, real-life case scenarios, and effective, practical strategies to address a key health care initiative of the 21st century--optimal quality of life for older adults. Distinguished by its broad and global outlook, the book includes contributions from an international cadre of widely published scholars and is designed for easy integration into traditional nursing education curricula. The book explores the experiences of older adults at home, and in acute and primary care, assisted living, nursing home and hospice environments and examines their needs for dealing with multiple, differentiated health, spiritual, and emotional considerations.

The book addresses all four domains of quality of life as set forth by the World Health Organization. A detailed and multi-dimensional case study opens each chapter, followed by subjective and objective data focusing on the quality of life domain addressed. Articulation and definition of each quality of life issue is presented along with the incidence and prevalence of the problem. Several cases addressing issues older adults encounter in preventing and managing acute and chronic disease serve as a clinical resource guide, with their emphasis on clinical reasoning.

Another outstanding feature of the book is its comprehensive, synthesized literature reviews with approximately 20 references for each issue. These reviews deliver the best evidence in the field and offer effective strategies. Generalist and advanced practice (AP) nursing roles in promoting quality of life as well as cultural considerations are also covered. Each chapter concludes with a bulleted summary of tips for promoting quality of life accompanied by clinical reasoning questions. Content is organized compatibly with the Adult/Gero Nurse Practitioner Certification Test Plan.

Key Features:

Addresses key quality of life education and practice initiatives advanced by leading gerontology organizations worldwide
Includes detailed, multi-faceted case studies reflecting extensive, current evidence-based literature
Describes practical, cost-effective strategies aimed at maintaining health
Disseminates the universally applicable perspectives of international scholars of global aging
Provides content compatible with the Adult/Gero Nurse Practitioner Certification Test Plan

Meredith Wallace Kazer, PhD, APRN, A/GNP-BC, FAAN, is an award-winning researcher and an adult and gerontological primary care nurse practitioner. She has been distinguished as one of the top 15 gerontology nursing professors in the U.S. She currently maintains a practice in Connecticut with a focus on chronic illness in older adults, clinical experience that informs her scholarly work. While obtaining a PhD in nursing research at NYU she was awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship at the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. In this capacity she became the original author and editor of Try This: Best Practices in Geriatric Nursing series. In 2001, she won the Springer Publishing Company Award for Applied Nursing Research. She was the Managing Editor and research brief editor for the Journal of Applied Nursing Research. Dr. Kazer was awarded the Connecticut Nurse Association Virginia Henderson Award for Outstanding Contributions to Nursing Research and four American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards. In addition, she is the recipient of the Eastern Nursing Research Society/John A. Hartford Foundation junior investigator award and in, 2011, was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing. Kathy Murphy, PhD, MSc, BA, RGN, RNT, Dip Nur, Dip Nur Ed, is currently Professor of Nursing at the University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. Her work has been disseminated in over 90 peer-reviewed journal publications, 12 book chapters, and over 100 research and invited presentations. She has held several clinical manager posts in older people's services and ED Nursing. For the last 20 years she has worked in nursing education in Oxford Brookes University, UK, followed by her position at National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. She has led a number of National and International research studies focused on older people. Her research interests include the quality of life of older people, dementia, and chronic disease management. Dr. Murphy has been in involved in a number of national research studies all using mixed methods.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.5.2015
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 641 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Geriatrie
Medizin / Pharmazie Pflege Altenpflege
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8261-2703-7 / 0826127037
ISBN-13 978-0-8261-2703-7 / 9780826127037
Zustand Neuware
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