Dementia care / Cynthia D. Steele.
By: Steele, Cynthia
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BookSeries: Nurse to nurse (New York, N.Y.): Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, c2010Description: viii, 200 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.ISBN: 9780071484329 (pbk.); 9780071590815.Subject(s): Dementia -- Nursing | Dementia -- Patients -- Care | Dementia -- Nursing | Health and Wellbeing | Nursing | Alzheimer's & dementia | Nursing & ancillary servicesDDC classification: 616.83 STE | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main | 616.83 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 38888000679831 | |
| General lending | MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main | 616.83 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 38888000679823 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Learn dementia care from an experienced colleague!
From a senior faculty member of the Copper Ridge Institute comes peer-to-peer guidance on how you can give the best possible care to dementia patients and their families.
Part of McGraw-Hill's Nurse to Nurse series, this title includes PDA download of the entire text, vignettes, nursing alerts that feature just-in-time information on complex or particularly important aspects of patient care, and Therapeutic Dialogue Boxes that provide nurses with specific communication solutions for both patients and their families. Coated flex-binding repels stains.
Features:
The new Nurse to Nurse series is specifically designed to simulate the teaching experience from which nurses learn best: trusted mentors carefully explaining what they must do in specific clinical situations. Written in a consistent, single-author voice, each book in the series brings the wisdom and experience of some of the foremost experts to non-specialist nurses in clinical care.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dementia basics -- Common complications of dementia -- Assessment : the vital signs of dementia -- Caregiving basics -- Common problems in daily care -- Managing behavioral problems -- Designing activities -- Helping families -- Pharmacologic treatments -- End-of-life care.
This handy, portable reference assists generalist nurses and other healthcare providers to deal with one of the most emotionally-trying and fear-inducing disorders that they face in clinical practice, that of dementia.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Nursing Care for Clients with Dementia
- 1 Key features of dementia
- 2 Definition of other complicating psychiatric and medical conditions
- 3 Recognition and management of delirium in the person with dementia
- 4 Daily care
- 5 The 5 D approach to behavior problems
- 6 Common behavior problems, risk factors and response
- 7 Creating activities for the person with dementia
- 8 The use of companions and sitters
- 9 Communication with the health care team
- 10 Transferring of the patient and essential information for their care to another provider
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Cynthia D. Steele MPH, RN , is Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Nursing, as well as Senior Faculty, The Copper Ridge Institute.
Involved with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for more than 20 years, Steele is an assistant professor of psychiatry, a faculty associate at JHU's School of Nursing, co-director of JHU's neuropsychiatry clinic and a senior faculty member at the Copper Ridge Institute. In all of these endeavors, she immerses herself in Alzheimer's and related conditions such as dementia. Steele wrote The Family Guideline Series for Dementia Care " and she established the Dementia Care Skills Lab at Copper Ridge for family caregivers. Copper Ridge, located in Sykesville, is an extension of the JHU School of Medicine that focuses entirely on Alzheimer's.