Description: Lecture, four hours; clinical, 12 hours. Requisites: courses 465A, 465B. Examination of nursing assessment and management of acute and chronic health problems of older adults. Theory content in assessment, health history, and diagnostic reasoning on older adults, with emphasis on social, cultural, and developmental influences. Integration of knowledge of pathophysiology, pharmacology, stress and adaptation, adult development theory, therapeutic interventions, and communication concepts as applied to care of older medical and surgical patients, with more complex and comorbid conditions, and their families. Concept of nurses as bedside scientists, with emphasis on critical and contextual thinking skills and diagnostic reasoning. Nursing process, ethical principles, clinical research, evidence-based practice, and clinical thinking that maximize patient safety and quality care for older adults employed during clinical experiences. Diagnosis and management of healthcare problems managed by master's-level clinical nurses in acute care settings. Letter grading.

Units: 8.0