Geriatric Nursing: Contemporary Challenges and Solutions Essay

This essay addresses contemporary issues in geriatric nursing, a critical area in healthcare. It begins by introducing the challenges associated with the aging population and the increasing prevalence of chronic disabilities, which place significant demands on nurses. The essay explores the rights of elderly patients, including their right to participate in healthcare decisions, personal autonomy, and assessment. Furthermore, it delves into solutions for nurses dealing with these issues, emphasizing the importance of avoiding negative stereotypes, creating care plans, and fostering effective communication with patients to understand and address their problems. The essay concludes by reiterating the nurse's responsibility to provide quality care to the elderly and maintain healthy practices. The essay references the textbook "Realities of Canadian nursing: Professional, practice and power issues" and other relevant sources.

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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction...........................................................................................................................2
2.0 Geriatric nursing issue..........................................................................................................2
2.1 Rights of elderly person.........................................................................................................2
2.2 Solutions for dealing with such issues...................................................................................2
3.0 Conclusion............................................................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................4

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1.0 Introduction
The primary purpose of the paper is to discuss geriatric nursing issue that is determined to be a
contemporary issue in healthcare settings. It will discuss the rights of the older adults along with
the solutions to deal with the contemporary issues.
2.0 Geriatric nursing issue
Geriatric nursing is a comprehensive source of management advice and clinical
information associated with care for older people. The ageing of the population creates major
healthcare and social challenge for nurses as it increases the rate of disability that leads to the
burden of chronic disabilities and conditions (McIntyre & McDonald, 2019). Due to such issues
the nurse face challenges in maintaining the health of patients (Journal of Gerontological
Nursing., 2019).
2.1 Rights of elderly person
The elderly patient possesses certain rights to nursing and medical care such as the tight
to participate in healthcare decision-making, the right to personal autonomy and the right to an
assessment (Gould, Dupuis-Blanchard & MacLennan, 2015). The nurses must follow these rights
to maintain therapeutic-relationship with the patient.
2.2 Solutions for dealing with such issues
There occurs several obstacles or problems for nurses while treating older adults.
However, it is the responsibility of the nurse to avoid all the negative beliefs and stereotypes to
provide quality care to older adults (Persoon, Bakker, van der Wal‐Huisman & Olde Rikkert,
2015). The nurse must create a care plan before treating an older patient.

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To overcome the challenges while providing care to the older patients, the nurse must
interact with the patient and understand the problems faced by the patient (Nursing, 2019).
3.0 Conclusion
The paper demonstrated an understanding of a contemporary issue namely geriatric
nursing issues where the nurses are responsible for providing quality care to the elderly people. It
has been observed that while treating such patient’s nurses must maintain healthy practices.

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References
Gould, O. N., Dupuis-Blanchard, S., & MacLennan, A. (2015). Canadian nursing students and
the care of older patients: How is geriatric nursing perceived?. Journal of Applied
Gerontology, 34(6), 797-814.
Journal of Gerontological Nursing. (2019). Healio.com. Retrieved 13 September 2019, from
https://www.healio.com/nursing/journals/jgn
McIntyre, M. & McDonald, C. (2019). Realities of Canadian nursing: Professional, practice and
power issues. (5th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
Nursing, G. (2019). Geriatric Nursing. Journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 13 September 2019,
from https://www.journals.elsevier.com/geriatric-nursing
Persoon, A., Bakker, F. C., van der Wal‐Huisman, H., & Olde Rikkert, M. G. (2015).
Development and Validation of the Geriatric In‐Hospital Nursing Care
Questionnaire. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 63(2), 327-334.