Course Description
TEXAS MANDATORY NURSING CNE. Fulfills the Texas Board of Nursing 2-contact-hour requirement for older adult care or geriatric care. Any Texas LVN, RN, or APRN whose practice includes the older adult or geriatric population is required to complete at least two contact hours in every licensure cycle. Course covers physiologic and cognitive changes of aging, mental health, elder abuse, and end-of-life care.
Learning Outcomes and Objectives
1) Discuss the major age-related physiologic changes impacting older adults and related management recommendations.
2) Describe cognitive changes impacting the health of older individuals and related management recommendations.
3) Describe mental health issues of older individuals.
4) Review the assessment and management of elder abuse victims.
5) Clarify the principles that guide end-of-life care.
Course Professions
Nursing
Mandatory
Course Summaries
Nursing, Mandatory:
REQUIRED FOR TEXAS NURSES Fulfills the requirement for nurses whose practice includes older adult or geriatric populations. Covers major age-related physiologic and cognitive changes impacting older adults and related prevention and health maintenance; includes overview of mental health issues, elder abuse, and end-of-life care.
Accreditation & Approval Information
Nursing:Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Nurse planners, content experts, faculty, and others in control of content (either individually or as a group) have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
This course was not Joint Provided. No outside commercial support was received for the creation of this course material.
Mandatory:Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Course Statements
Nursing, Mandatory:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Course Notes
All Professions, Nursing, Mandatory:
This course fulfills the requirement for at least 2 contact hours of continuing education relating to older adult care for nurses in Texas whose practice includes older adult or geriatric populations.
Course Categories
Elder Health (Gerontology)
Ethical, Legal Issues
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
Authors
Judith Swan, MSN, BSN, ADN
Judith Swan has been in the healthcare field for over fifty years, beginning as a medic in the U.S. Air Force. As an RN, she has worked in mental health, emergency, orthopedics, hospice, and medical/surgical. She holds an MSN as a family nurse practitioner. Judith's experience in nursing education includes teaching psychiatric, long-term, and dementia nursing care and as director of a nursing assistant college program. She has written ancillary educational materials for nursing textbooks, curricula for nursing assistant programs, online health articles, and continuing education courses since 2012.
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