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Information, Roles and Responsibilities of Geriatric Nursing

Surinder Kaur

Abstract


Geriatric nursing is a specialized branch of nursing that specializes in offering care for elderly sufferers. Geriatric nurses are skilled to satisfy the specific health care desires of older adults, inclusive of dealing with persistent ailments, promoting health and well-being, and offering stop-of-life care. They work in a diffusion of settings which include hospitals, lengthy-term care facilities, domestic health care businesses, and community clinics. Geriatric nursing includes not handiest providing medical care but also addressing the social and emotional desires of older sufferers. Geriatric nurses check sufferers’ fitness and cognitive fame, increase care plans, administer medicines, offer wound care, manipulate continual conditions, and coordinate care with different healthcare professionals.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijgn.v6i1.2308

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