NGC Update Service: September 16, 2013 ▲ Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing

NGC Update Service: September 16, 2013

September 16, 2013

NGC Update Service: September 16, 2013

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 09/16/2013 12:00 PM EDT

September 16, 2013

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Guideline Summaries

Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing

• Advance directives. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice. This updates a previously published guideline summary.
• Age-related changes in health. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice. This updates a previously published guideline summary.
• Assessing cognitive functioning. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice. This updates a previously published guideline summary.
• Assessment of physical function. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice. This updates a previously published guideline summary.
• Comprehensive assessment and management of the critically ill. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice. This updates a previously published guideline summary.
• Delirium. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice. This updates a previously published guideline summary.
• Depression in older adults. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice. This updates a previously published guideline summary.
• Detection of elder mistreatment. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice.
• Excessive sleepiness. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice. This updates a previously published guideline summary.
• Family caregiving. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice. This updates a previously published guideline summary.
• Health care decision making. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice. This updates a previously published guideline summary.
• Heart failure: early recognition, and treatment of the patient at risk for hospital readmission. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice.
• Recognition and management of dementia. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice. This updates a previously published guideline summary.
• Sexuality in the older adult. In: Evidence-based geriatric nursing protocols for best practice. This updates a previously published guideline summary.