Management Guidelines For Nurse Practitioners Working With Older Adults

Copyright © 2004 by F. A. Davis. 00kennedy-FM 6/18/03 3:33 PM Page i Copyright © 2004 by F. A. Davis. MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES FOR NURSE PRACTITIONERS WORKING WITH OLDER ADULTS 00kennedy-FM 6/18/03 3:33 PM Page ii Copyright © 2004 by F. A. Davis. New Editions of F. A. Davis’s Management Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners Series Unique clinical references created to help nurse practitioners manage problems they encounter with clients throughout the life span  Management Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners Working with Adults, 2nd Edition By Lynne M. Dunphy ISBN 0-8036-1117-X  Management Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners Working with Children and Adolescents, 2nd Edition By Nancy L. Herban Hill and Linda M. Sullivan ISBN 0-8036-1102-1 PDA v of the e r s i o n s  Management Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners includ se books , ing a Working with Women, 2nd Edition free t a By Kathleen M. Pellitier Brown www vailable at rial .fadav ISBN 0-8036-1116-1 is .com  Management Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners Working with Older Adults, 2nd Edition By Laurie Kennedy-Malone, Kathleen Ryan Fletcher, and Lori Martin Plank ISBN 0-8036-1120-X Each book: • Is pocket-sized for on-the-spot consultation, • Focuses on health promotions, anticipatory guidance, and disorder guidelines, • Focuses on recommendations and guidelines, not theory, • Includes ICD-9 codes for all the disorders, • Includes diagnostic test information tables with test name, results indicating disorder, and CPT codes, • Lists one or two “Signal Symptoms” for each disorder that helps nurse practitioners quickly target potential differential diagnoses. Recently Published:  Management Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners Working in Family Practice By Alice F. Running and Amy E. Berndt ISBN 0-8036-0810-1 • Organized by anatomical areas, it covers 310 disorders and conditions, with rationales and causes provided for abnormal test values. Purchase copies of one or all of the books in F. A. Davis’s Management Guidelines Series as well as related PDA software from your local health science bookstore or directly from F. A. Davis by shopping online at www.fadavis.com or calling 800-323-3555 (US), 800-665-1148 (CAN). 00kennedy-FM 6/18/03 3:33 PM Page iii Copyright © 2004 by F. A. Davis. MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES FOR NURSE PRACTITIONERS WORKING WITH OLDER ADULTS Second Edition Laurie Kennedy-Malone, PhD, APRN-BC, GNP Associate Professor Director of the Adult/Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Program School of Nursing The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, North Carolina Kathleen Ryan Fletcher, RN, MSN, APRN-BC, GNP, FAAN Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Administrator, Senior Services Assistant Professor of Nursing University of Virginia Health System Charlottesville, Virginia Lori Martin Plank, PhD(c), MSPH, MSN, RN, APRN, BC Assistant Professor, School of Nursing College of Allied Health Sciences Temple University Family and Gerontological Nurse Practitioner, Temple Health Connection, a member of the National Nursing Centers Consortium Philadelphia, Pennsylvania F. A. DAVIS COMPANY | Philadelphia 00kennedy-FM 6/18/03 3:33 PM Page iv Copyright © 2004 by F. A. Davis. F. A. Davis Company 1915 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 Copyright © 2004 by F. A. Davis Company All rights