Download or read book Instructor's Guide and Test Bank for Ignatavicius: Introduction to Long Term Nursing Care : Principles and Practice written by Donna D Ignatavicius and published by F. A. Davis Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Focuses on caring for the elderly in long term care, providing nursing faculty with a mechanism for meeting the NLN's directive for covering gerontologic nursing care -- Discusses normal physiologic changes of aging and describes their impact on assessment findings in the elderly -- Defines and explains responsibilities, regulation, and management of long term care facilities, with an emphasis on the differences in RN and LPN/LVN roles -- Describes the differences in documentation in long term care facilities and presents examples of several completed forms in appendices -- Discusses how the nurse prevents, assesses, and intervenes for common health problems experienced by the elderly in long term care facilities -- Defines and explains the nurse's role as a manager in long term care facilities