Description
Three research or clinical projects are presented that discuss the creative work APNs are doing to further the care of older adults.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the key components of the self-care of heart failure (SCHF) program content used in a house call practice.
- Discuss the SCHF program evaluation findings.
- Identify two recommendations for future research in self-care of heart failure.
- Describe the effects of immobility on hospitalized elders.
- Identify facilitators and barriers to mobility and maintaining functional status in hospitalized patients as identified by nursing staff participating in a clinical trial to improve mobility for hospitalized patients 70 years and older.
- Analyze recommendations from nurses participating in a clinical project to improve mobility in elder hospitalized patients for application to APRN geriatric practice.
- Define orthostatic hypotension according to consensus definition and the standard for measurement.
- Identify the relevance of orthostatic hypotension to negative outcomes for older adults in dementia care units.
- Describe nursing care measures according to an evidence-based protocol to minimize or prevent OH.
Speaker(s):
- Rebecca
Bryant,
DNP, FNP-BC,
Associate Professor,
Ohio University
- Barbara
Fulmer,
MSN, GNP-BC, CWOCN
- Mary
A. Momeyer,
DNP, ANP-BC, GNP-BC
