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Adult nursing is a specialty area within nursing that covers a wide range of acute and chronic illnesses and diseases affecting adult patients; and provides education, prevention, and primary care focused upon adults and their entire family. Adult nursing ranges from routine health care and primary care for acute and chronic illness in a physician's office, to critical care in a highly technical hospital setting.
Adult nursing has a number of subspecialty areas including cardiac care, diabetes mellitus education and treatment, geriatrics, and hospice care. Patient care may be provided in a physician's office, a hospital, a patient's home, a long-term care facility, or in community-based clinics. An adult nurse is part of a health care team consisting of physicians, pharmacists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dieticians/nutritionists, laboratory personnel, health care assistants, and many other disciplines.
Geriatric nursing specializes in both acute and chronic age-related illness and disease, and requires an advanced knowledge of the aging process and how it affects an elder's health and well-being. Geriatric nursing also recognizes the need for specialized care and prevention, rehabilitation needs, and the physical and mental health of the elderly.
Adult Nursing Theories and Models
- Nightingales' Modern Nursing Philosophy
- Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing
- Roper, Logan, and Tierney's Model for Nursing Based on a Model of Living
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