Dementia-Specific Nursing Care Competencies for Nursing Education and Long-Term Care Practice.
Nurs Clin North Am
; 57(2): 217-232, 2022 06.
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| ID: mdl-35659984
ABSTRACT
Enhanced dementia-specific nursing care is needed to incorporate the rapid changes in dementia science for an expanding population of persons living with dementia (PLWD) in long-term care. Dementia-specific nursing care competencies should be incorporated into current curricula for undergraduate and graduate nursing programs as well as nurse professional practice. This article proposes a set of dementia nursing care competencies that reflect current scientific findings on neurodegenerative dementia diseases, communication and shared decision-making, supportive care management for symptoms of distress and deficits in activities of daily living, risk assessments for adverse outcomes, palliative care and advance directives, and caregiver issues.
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Capacitacao_em_gestao_de_ciencia
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Demência
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Educação em Enfermagem
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Cuidados de Enfermagem
Tipo de estudo:
Guideline
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Prognostic_studies
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2022
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Article