This stream of nursing is concerned with the care of the older population, that includes promotion of healthy aging as well as prevention, assessment, and management of physiological, pathological, psychological, economic, and sociological problems. Geriatric nurse tends to understand and treat the often physical and mental health needs of older people. They protect their patient health and come up with changes in their mental and physical abilities, to make old people stay independent and active as long as possible. Geriatric nurses support health improvement in older people by preventing and treating disease and disability that occurs with ageing. It involves serving to older adults at their home, hospital or special institutions like the nursing home, psychiatric institution etc.
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Adele Webb, Strategic Education, Inc., United States
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Nancy L Moureau, PICC Excellence, Inc, United States
Title : Representation of interests and professionalisation in nursing using the example of the establishment of the North Rhine-Westphalia nursing board
Sandra Postel, President of the North Rhine-Westphalia Nursing Board, Germany
Title : Strengthening the nursing profession: The new paradigm of mentorship
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Title : The peaks and troughs of vancomycin compliance
Tracy O Brien, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Title : Reducing predictable in hospital cardiac arrests
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