2025) Chapter 1-36
Test Bank for Toward Healthy Aging Human Needs and Nursing
Response 11th Edition (Theris A. Touhy, 2025) Chapter 1-36
Test Bank for Toward Healthy Aging Human Needs and Nursing Response 11th Edition (Theris A. Touhy,
2025) Chapter 1-36
,Test Bank for Toward Healthy Aging Human Needs and Nursing Response 11th Edition (Theris A. Touhy,
2025) Chapter 1-36
PART 1 Foundations for Clinical Judgment to Promote Healthy Aging
1 Gerontological Nursing Across the Continuum of Care
2 Aging, Health, and Wellness in a Global Community
3 Theories of Aging
4 Providing Cross-Cultural Care
5 Economics and Health Care in Late Life
6 Promoting Excellence in Long- Term Care
PART 2 Foundations for Taking Action
7 Therapeutic Communication With Older Adults
8 Cognitive Health and Learning
9 Recognizing and Analyzing Cues to Maximize Outcomes
10 Using Laboratory Data in Clinical Judgment
11 Safe Medication Use
PART 3 Clinical Judgment to Promote Wellness and Function
12 Visual Health
13 Auditory Health
14 Healthy Skin
15 Nutritional Health
16 Hydration and Oral Health
17 Elimination
18 Sleep
Test Bank for Toward Healthy Aging Human Needs and Nursing Response 11th Edition (Theris A. Touhy,
2025) Chapter 1-36
,Test Bank for Toward Healthy Aging Human Needs and Nursing Response 11th Edition (Theris A. Touhy,
2025) Chapter 1-36
19 Activity and Exercise
20 Falls and Fall Risk Reduction
21 Safe and Secure Environments
PART 4 Clinical Judgment to Promote Wellness for Persons With Chronic Illnesses
22 Living Well With Chronic Illness
23 Vascular Disorders
24 RespiratoryDisorders
25 NeurocognitiveDisorders
26 Care of Individuals With Neurocognitive Disorders
27 Endocrine and Immune Disorders
28 Common Musculoskeletal
Disorders
29 Pain and Comfort
30 Mental Health
PART 5 Clinical Judgment to Promote Healthy
Aging With Older Adults and Families
31 Ethics, Decision Making, and Mistreatment
32 Relationships, Roles, and Life Transitions
33 Intimacy and
Sexual Health
34 Loss, Death, and Palliative Care
35 Spiritual Health, Meaning, and Self-Actualization
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, Test Bank for Toward Healthy Aging Human Needs and Nursing Response 11th Edition (Theris A. Touhy,
2025) Chapter 1-36
Chapter 01: Gerontological Nursing Across the Continuum of
Care Touhy: Toward Healthy Aging, 11th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. When did serious and well-controlled research studies on aging first become available?
a. Only in the past 60 years.
b. Since the turn of the 20th century.
c. Following the Great Depression.
d. Since the year 2000.
ACCURATE ANSWER:-A
REASONING:->>>Only in the past 60 years have serious and carefully controlled research
studies flourished. Before that, anecdotal evidence was used to illustrate issues assumed to be
universal, making all the remaining options incorrect.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering TOPIC: Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning MSC: Patient
Needs: Health Promotion and Maintenance
2. The son of a nursing home resident asks a nursing attendant: “What is the significance
of being certified in gerontology? I see that you are, but not all of the nursing attendants are.”
What response best answers the family member’s question?
a. “National certification as a gerontological nursing attendant is a way to demonstrate
special knowledge in caring for older
adults.”
b. “National certification in gerontology is required for all nursing attendants who have
worked in this setting for 2 or more years.”
c. “National certification is only available to nursing attendants who have a Baccalaureate
degree in nursing.”
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