LibGuides: Health Occupations: HNR 102

Well Older Adults

Care of the Older Adult or Adult with Disabilities
from Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice
Promoting Health for Older Adults (from the CDC)
Reliable information on topics related to older adults; good for patient education.
STEADI - Clinical Resources
Materials to help healthcare providers screen, assess, and intervene to reduce fall risk among their older patients
Healthy People 2030: Older Adults (from HHS)
A collection of data and reports on key issues for healthy aging. Explore topics then drill down into Evidence-Based resources
Information on Therapeutic Communications
Explains the basics of therapeutic communications for nursing and gives techniques.

Researching Conditions: Asthma

Asthma - Background (from Magill's Medical Guide)
Background on Asthma, Causes & Symptoms, and Treatment & Therapy
Asthma: Nursing Care Information (Care Sheets - CINAHL)
Quick information for nurses. Includes clinical presentation, assessment, treatment goals and information for the patient's family.
Asthma Fast Facts (CDC)
From the CDC's National Asthma Control Program
Asthma (from Davis’s Diseases and Disorders: A Nursing Therapeutics Manual)
Has detailed information on causes and assessment, and for nursing care: diagnosis, interventions & outcomes
Asthma (from NLM)
Reliable overview information about asthma with links to many other reliable documents for more specific information. From the National Library of Medicine.
Learn How To Control Asthma (from the CDC)
Reliable general information about asthma for patient education. From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Resources on Culture & Healthcare

Policy Map
A web-based tool to quickly visualize and understand communities across the US.

Use books to help you start thinking about a group or population and how characteristics will influence how you provide care. Examples of potential issues are:

do they understand healthcare discussions, the specific terms or what they mean?
will they question a diagnosis to the doctor? only ask questions of a nurse?
do they have insurance? is there a support network to help them continue care at home?

Here's a link to the list of books we have for this assignment. These books are at the NMC Library service desk.

Handbook of Patients’ Spiritual and Cultural Values for Health Care Professionals
Glossary of Terms (Human Rights Commission)
This glossary of terms related to sexual orientation and gender identity or expression was written to help give people the words and meanings to help make conversations easier and more comfortable.