Course Outline
Wholistic Care of the Older Adult: Gerontological Nursing
$67.95 10 Contact Hours
- Demographics of aging
- Characteristics of the elderly population
- Nursing practice
- Theories of aging
- Age-related transitions
- Structural and functional changes in integumentary, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, neurologic, endocrine, musculoskeletal, sensory and immune systems
- Age-related disorders
- Safety concerns
- Legal and ethical issues
- Economics of elderly care