Elder Abuse and Nursing: What Nurses Need to Know and Can Do / Edition 1

by Carol A. Miller MSN, RN-BC

Overview

The only text about elder abuse specifically for nurses in clinical settings.

Nurses are required by law to report elder abuse even when it is suspected but not verified. This is the only research-based and clinically oriented text that applies what is known about different forms of elder abuse in domestic and long-term care settings to the everyday experiences of practicing nurses. Content addresses not only legal and ethical concerns, but also serves as an essential guide to caring for older adults, delineating the role of nurses in detecting, suspecting, reporting, assessing, providing interventions for, and preventing elder abuse in all clinical settings. Detailed and unfolding case studies throughout the text illustrate nurses in action as they address elder abuse in commonly encountered nurse client or nurse patient situations.

Chapters show nurses in various health care settings how to address elder abuse issues relating to older adults, caregivers, and perpetrators. Each section provides nurses with crucial information about how to access essential resources for addressing specific aspects of elder abuse, including self-neglect, domestic abuse, abuse in long-term care settings, financial abuse, and sexual abuse. In-depth guides help nurses apply their usual nursing assessment and intervention skills to unusual situations when caring for older adults who are in actual or potentially abusive situations. In an easy-to-use and clinically applicable format, concise tools and guides throughout the book highlight core facets of elder abuse and the role of nurses. Each chapter concludes with Key Points: What Nurses Need to Know and Can Do highlighting the content that is most applicable to nursing care of older adults.

KEY FEATURES:

• Presents essential facts about different forms of elder abuse and applies the information to nursing care of older adults in various clinical settings
• Describes key criteria for nurses to use for recognizing, assessing, providing interventions for, and reporting elder abuse
• Addresses legal, ethical, cultural, and interprofessional care considerations
• Provides numerous guides to nursing assessment and interventions that address elder abuse
• Case examples illustrate nurses in action addressing many types of elder abuse situations
• Includes the words of older adults describing their experiences and perceptions of elder abuse
• Includes the words and thoughts of nurses describing their reflections on and perceptions of elder abuse situations
• Each chapter concludes with Key Points: What Nurses Need to Know and Can Do

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826131522
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	08/15/2016
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Carol A. Miller, MSN, RN-BC is an independent care manager at Care & Counseling, where she focuses on promoting wellness for clients and their families.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Contributors and Reviewers

Foreword Debra Hain, PhD, ANP-BC, GNP-BC, FAANP

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I. THE NURSES GUIDE TO ELDER ABUSE IN ITS MANY FORMS AND GUISES

1. Introduction to Elder Abuse and Nursing: Forms, Settings, Risks, and Consequences

2. Elder Abuse in Domestic Settings by a Trusted Other

3. Elder Abuse in Domestic Settings: Self-Neglect

4. Elder Abuse in Long-Term Care Facilities

5. Cultural Considerations Related to Elder Abuse

PART II. ROLES OF NURSES RELATED TO DETECTING AND REPORTING ELDER ABUSE

6. Laws Related to Elder Abuse and Roles of Nurses as Reporters

7. Tools and Guides for Nurses to Detect Elder Abuse

8. Ethical Issues Related to Elder Abuse for Nurses

PART III. BEYOND KNOWING ABOUT ELDER ABUSE: WHAT NURSES CAN DO TO ADDRESS IT

9. Unique Aspects of Nursing Assessment Related to Elder Abuse

10. Unique Aspects of Nursing Interventions Related to Elder Abuse

11. Resources for Addressing Elder Abuse

PART IV. NURSES IN ACTION ADDRESSING ELDER ABUSE IN CLINICAL SETTINGS

12. Nurses in Action Addressing Domestic Elder Abuse Across Settings

13. A Nurse in Action Caring for a Self-Neglecting Older Adult

14. A Nurse as a Member of a Multidisciplinary Team Preventing Elder Abuse

PART V. THE NURSE’S GUIDE TO FINANCIAL ABUSE AND SEXUAL ABUSE OF OLDER ADULTS

15. Financial Abuse of Older Adults in Its Many Forms and Guises

16. Sexual Abuse of Older Adults in Its Many Forms and Guises

Epilogue Georgia J. Anetzberger

Epilogue Terry Fulmer

Appendix A: Contact Information for State Adult Protective Service Agencies for Reporting Elder Abuse

Appendix B: Contact Information for State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs

Index