Nursing care for elderly patients. Textbook

The textbook contains a theoretical course on the Geriatrian section "Nursing care for elderly patients" and is compiled in accordance with the requirements of the new Federal State Educational Standard of Secondary Professional Education in the specialty 34.02.01 "Nursing".
All theoretical material is divided into sections according to the anatomical principle in which the professional and general competencies of the nurses are concluded, necessary for the provision of first -aid assistance to patients of the senior age group for diseases of the relevant organs. The topics of the theoretical block also include a list of basic concepts and terms, control issues for self -testing of knowledge.
The textbook describes the versatile activity of a nurse in departments with a geriatric bias: therapeutic, pulmonological, cardiological, gastroenterological, urological, nephrological, trauma. The clinical features of each of the pathologies under consideration are outlined in the elderly and senile people in comparison with the classic versions of these diseases in patients of young and middle age. The text is supplemented by numerous illustrations, tables and schemes, which simplifies the perception of information.
The publication is intended for students of medical schools and colleges