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1.

Explain the roles of Gerontological Nurse as: (5 points each)

⦁a. Provider of care-They are knowledgeable and will educated the elderly such us disease that is
typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms. A disease usually has a defined or
understood cause, process, and treatment. They are working with something I think I understand
and have a treatment that usually works.Moreover they are also educated about syndromes which
is a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality or
condition. Another definition is a set of concurrent things, such as emotions or actions, that form
an identifiable pattern.This is usually seen in the older population.

⦁b. Teacher/Educator-They are using health teaching method to the elderly.In a way that health
promotion,enabling people to increase control over and to improve, their health. It moves beyond
a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental
interventions.This is accomplished by building healthy public policies, creating supportive
environments, and strengthening community action and personal skills.Furthermore the Risk
factors for them, conditions that increase your risk of developing a disease. Risk factors are
either modifiable, meaning you can take measures to change them, or non-modifiable, which
means they cannot be changed.

⦁c. Manager-In charge of overseeing a team of nurses as they provide healthcare services to
patients and manage their records. Their duties include training, scheduling and mentoring
nursing staff, managing a budget for their team and consulting on patient treatment
plans.Moreover ,they must be skilled in: Leadership, Time management,Building relationships,
Communication & Managing change

⦁d. Advocate-A good health advocate is someone who knows you well and is calm, organized,
assertive, and comfortable asking questions.An recommend will sincerely provide an explanation
for the sort of assist you want and your issues.Also offer information of your scientific history.
You may also even need to provide your recommend get admission to for your digital fitness
report so he or she will refer to check outcomes or notes, ask for refills on prescription
medication, or even e mail questions or issues to the physician. Just make certain you offer
permission for the physician and different fitness care experts to percentage facts approximately
you together along with your recommend.Moreover, Strengthen their autonomy & choice
making It does now no longer suggest making choices for older adults,however empowering
them to stay unbiased and maintain their dignity, even in hard situations.

⦁e. Research Consumer-They ought to continue to be abreast of contemporary studies literature,


studying and placing into exercise the consequences of dependable and legitimate studies. Using
evidence-primarily based totally exercise, gerontological nurses can enhance the pleasant of
affected person care in all settings. Although nurses with undergraduate levels can be worried in
studies in a few facilities, consisting of supporting with records series or supplying studies
thoughts stimulated via way of means of scientific problems, their basic training is aimed
frequently at the usage of studies in exercise. All nurses need to study expert journals particular
to their forte and maintain their training via way of means of attending seminars and workshops,
collaborating in expert organizations, pursuing extra formal training or levels, and acquiring
certification. In being a studies consumer, gerontological nurses can enhance the pleasant of
affected person care in all

settings.

2. Choose one competency guidelines for geriatric nursing care and explain. (10 pts.)

Analyze the impact of an aging society on the health care system.

While the accelerated durability and improved health at older a long time visible in lots of
elements of the sector constitute one of the crowning achievements of the twentieth century,
those traits additionally gift sizeable challenges. Societal growing old can have an effect on
financial growth, styles of labor and retirement, the manner that households function, the cap
potential of governments and groups to offer ok assets for older adults, and the superiority of
continual disorder and disability.To cope with the increasing aging population. Our health care
system additionally wishes to put together for brand new generation (in particular due to the
better cost) via way of means of growing education of fitness care people and analyzing how
generation will effect clinic infrastructure.The health care system will want to put together for
the growing incidences of continual situations inside the growing older population, in addition to
increase techniques to save you falls. An essential undertaking is implementation of recent
procedures in fitness care transport to cope with the converting fitness fame of this growing older
population. With continual situations at the upward thrust on this population, their fitness care
will become extra complex. Focusing on a unmarried ailment in preference to comorbidity can
bring about inadequate consciousness on different gift clinical situations.Instead, the fitness care
machine should put together for enforcing a multidisciplinary technique to make certain sufferers
are receiving higher case management. There additionally wishes to be a focal point on
presenting preventive care as opposed to reactive care. Strategies may also consist of a extra
complete care plan earlier than discharge, a machine to assist perceive sufferers who require
follow-up, and implementation of a software to assist screen sufferers.

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