Geriatric Nursing:

Terms Related to Geriatric Nursing

• Old Age Home

  Geriatric long-term care facilities which provide supervision and assistance in activities of daily living with medical and nursing services when required.

• Transcultural Nursing

  A nursing specialty created to answer the need for developing a global perspective in the practice of nursing in a world of interdependent nations and ...

• Nursing Theory

  Concepts, definitions, and propositions applied to the study of various phenomena which pertain to nursing and nursing research.

• Nursing Student

  Individuals enrolled in a school of nursing or a formal educational program leading to a degree in nursing.

• Nursing Diagnosis

  Conclusions derived from the nursing assessment that establish a health status profile for the patient and from which nursing interventions may be ordered.

• Administrative Nursing Research

  Research concerned with establishing costs of nursing care, examining the relationships between nursing services and quality patient care, and viewing problems of nursing service delivery ...