| The
manual, Restraint-Free
Care: Individualized Approaches for Frail Elders
by Neville
Strumpf, Joanne
Patterson Robinson, Joan Stockman Wagner, and
Lois
K. Evans is the culmination of a research program,
begun in 1986. Over the years, Evans' and Strumpf's
research has contributed to a better understanding
of the negative consequences associated with physical
restraints for older adults. This manual for nurses
describes alternatives to restraining patients. It
stresses not only comfort and safety, but the best
possible quality of life for frail elders. It requires
caregivers to make sense of clients' behaviors, not
to simply control their responses. 151
pages; Springer Publication Company, 1998..
| American
College of Health Care Administrators |
"This
is for anyone seeking information on restraint-free
care. It is organized in outline format to
highlight critical material and to be readily
adaptable as a quick reference for clinicians
or as an adjunct for teaching staff or educating
administrators, board members and consumers."
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Award Winning Book by PENN-NURSING
FACULTY
 Advanced
Practice Nursing with Older Adults: Clinical Guidelines,
edited by Valerie
Cotter, MSN, CRNP, Associate Director of the Gerontology
Nurse Practitioner Program, and Neville
Strumpf, PhD, RN, Edith Clemmer Steinbright Professor
in Gerontology, Director, Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing
Excellence, has received the BOOK
OF THE YEAR AWARD for Advanced Practice Nursing
from the American Journal of Nursing. The contributors,
almost all of whom Penn faculty or alumni, describe best
practices in many areas, including diabetes, pain managment,
and palliative care. It includes essential diagnostic strategies
and treatment protocols for common health and functional
problems among the elderly, treatment procedures, and a
chapter on palliative care and advance directives. 576 pages;
McGraw-Hill, 2002.
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