Audrey L. Nelson

Evidence-Based Protocols for Managing Wandering Behaviors (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Algase, Donna L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!

Designated a Doody's Core Title!

"I have not seen a book that does a better job with synthesis or provision of good concise information to those in need." (3 Stars)--Doody's Book Review Service

Wandering behaviors are among the most frequent, problematic, and dangerous conditions associated with dementia and a continual challenge in health care and the community. Strongly research-based, this book presents and analyzes the latest research on wandering from the clinical, health care management, and policy literature and offers practical assessment and management tools. Nurses, physicians, gerontologists and others address the range of wandering behaviors of patients with Alzheimer's and other dementias, including prevention of elopement, getting lost, falls, fractures, and the subsequent need for extended nursing home or other supervised care that may result. The book places special emphasis on the difficult and stressful problems of daily patient care, improving safety for those with cognitive impairments, and enabling those with dementia to remain independent longer.

This book is for all caregivers intent on improving care for the nearly 5 million Americans who are at risk.

Key Features of this book:

• Offers practical tools for measuring and assessing wandering
• Emphasizes difficult and stressful daily problems of patient care
• Assesses medication and nonpharmacological interventions
• Describes the Alzheimer's Association's Safe ReturnÆ Program
• Weighs environmental design factors that influence wandering behaviors

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826163660
• Artikelnr.: 44830142

Autorenporträt

Audrey L. Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Director of the Veterans Administration Patient Safety Research Center and has more than 28 years of experience in nursing. She currently serves as the Associate Chief of Nursing Service for Research at the Tampa VA and Director of the Tampa Patient Safety Center of Inquiry. Dr. Nelson is Associate Director of Clinical Research at the University of South Florida College of Nursing and is a Research Professor in the Colleges of Public Health and Engineering. She is a national leader in patient safety and has established and chairs the International Research Consortium on Wandering.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Contributors
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
PART I: CONSTRUCT OF WANDERING
1. Wandering Definitions and Terms, Donna L. Algase, D. Helen Moore,
Deborah Gavin-Dreschnack, and Carla VandeWeerd
2. Theoretical Models of Wandering, Donna L. Algase, Lan Yao, Cynthia A.
Beel-Bates, and Jun-Ah Song
3. Epidemiology of Wandering, Ladislav Volicer
4. Neuropsychological Correlates of Wandering, Cheryl A. Luis and Lisa
M. Brown
PART II: ASSESSMENT
5. Assessment of Wandering Behaviors, Donna L. Algase
PART III: SPECIAL ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH WANDERING
6. Impact of Wandering on Functional Status, Elizabeth R.A. Beattie and
Cynthia A. Beel-Bates
7. Caregiver Issues Associated with Wandering, Elizabeth A. Perkins,
Nancy Lynn, and William E. Haley
8. Cultural Issues Associated with Wandering, Inez Joseph and Gwi-Ryung
Son Hong
9. Root Cause Analysis of Reported Wandering Adverse Events in the
Veterans Health Administration, Joseph M. DeRosier, Lesley Taylor,
James Turner, and James P. Bagian
10. Getting Lost: Antecedents, Wandering Behavior, and Search Strategies,
Meredeth A. Rowe and Andrea J. Pe Benito
PART IV: INTERVENTIONS
11. Behavior Management of Wandering Behavior: Staff Training Issues,
Lawrence Schonfeld, Lisa M. Brown, and Victor A. Molinari
12. Pharmacological Interventions Associated with Wandering, Stephen
Charles Castle and Michelle K. Rutledge
13. The Alzheimer's Association's Safe Return® Program for Persons Who
Wander, Elizabeth Bass, Meredeth A. Rowe, and Monica Moreno
14. A Home Safety Program for Community-Based Wanderers: Outcomes from
the Veterans Home Safety Project, Kathy J. Horvath, Rose M. Harvey,
and Scott A. Trudeau
15. Technologies to Manage Wandering, William D. Kearns and James L.
Fozard
16. Environmental Design, Bettye Rose Connell and Margaret P. Calkins
17. Evidence-Based Practice Protocols for Wandering, Elizabeth R.A.
Beattie and Laura M. Struble
PART V: FUTURE DIRECTIONS
18. A Research Agenda to Build the Science Associated with Wandering,
Audrey L. Nelson and Donna L. Algase
Appendices
Appendix A: Compendium of Wandering-Related Terms and Definitions
Appendix B: Measurement Tools for Wandering
Appendix C: Wandering Resources
Index