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Author Wells, Thelma J.

Title Problems in geriatric nursing care : a study of nurses' problems in care of old people in hospitals / Thelma J. Wells ; foreword by J.C. Brocklehurst
Published Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone ; New York : distributed in the U.S. by Longman, 1980

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 MELB  610.7365 W465P  AVAILABLE
Description xii,158 pages : plan ; 22cm
Contents 1. Introduction to the study -- 2. The environment: space, equipment and furniture -- 3. Nurse descriptions of patients in geriatric wards -- 4. Geriatric nurses' knowledge and attitudes about care of older people -- 5. An imposed change: personalized clothing in geriatric wards -- 6. Geriatric nurses' work -- 7. Discussion and implications of geriatric ward nurses' work -- 8. Nurse-patient verbal communcation in a geriatric ward -- 9. Summary and conclusion of the study
Notes Essence of the author's thesis, University of Manchester, 1975
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [132]-135
Subject Older people -- Hospital care.
Geriatric nursing.
LC no. 79040559
ISBN 0443019398 (paperback)
(paperback)