Infusing Geropsychiatric Nursing into Curricula - Resources for Teaching Key Concept IV.A. (Promotes Safety and Risk Factor Reduction)
Nurses play a key role in optimizing patient safety and reducing risk factors that may result in mental illness and/or contribute to poor outcomes in older adults with existing mental health issues. From a community or population-based level, nurses work with others to promote mental health and reduce risk of psychiatric disorders in late life, including those risk factors that contribute to decline in physical functioning, impaired quality of life, social isolation, excess disability in older adults, and psychiatric and behavioral symptoms.
This product contains resources that address the following:
- Medication management
- Nursing home care
- Older driver safety
- Diabetes
- Dementia
- Restraints
- Increase awareness of safety issues and risk factors that contribute to vulnerability for mental illness in older adults. with mental health issues.
- Identify population-based interventions that can help reduce risks and promote mental health in older adults.
Each of the 27 products based on the Key Concepts provides access to curriculum/teaching materials to assist faculty to infuse the geropsychiatric nursing competency enhancements into course objectives, teaching strategies, didactic content, and/or clinical experiences of relevant educational programs. These include entry level and advanced practice nursing programs in psychiatric-mental health, adult/gerontological, family, women’s health or acute care, or stand-alone geropsychiatric nursing or continuing education courses. The resources may be adapted for use with a range of learners, as indicated in each description. Each resource has been identified as appropriate to teaching the Key Concept and is described in detail.