Elevate your geriatric nursing practice with confidence and compassion—this essential guide offers in-depth, practical training for students, practising nurses and clinical educators in the UK.

What you’ll discover inside:

• Frailty, falls & mobility: Includes CGA, ADL, MMSE, TUG, and frailty index tools.

• Chronic conditions management: Tailored interventions for COPD, heart failure, and diabetes.

• Complex medication care: Polypharmacy risk reduction, STOPP/START, reconciliation strategies.

• Nutrition, hydration & dysphagia: Evidence-based nursing care for malnutrition, dehydration, swallowing issues.

• Pressure ulcer prevention & safe handling: Waterlow scoring, repositioning protocols, and personal hygiene strategies.

• Decision-making & legal guidance: MCA, consent, DNACPR, LPAs, advance care planning.

• Safeguarding & emergency response: Scenario-based training for falls, delirium, hypoglycaemia, and safeguarding concerns.

• Communication skills: Non-verbal, cognitively impaired, dementia, hearing-impaired, and family-centered dialogues.

• Leadership & professional development: Clinical supervision, reflective practice (Gibbs), CPD, audit frameworks, and NHS quality standards.

• Ethical dilemmas & end-of-life care: Practical decision-making models in advanced care planning and emotional distress.

Why this book stands out:

• Rooted in NICE guidelines, NMC Code, Care Act, and UK legislation

• Filled with real-life clinical scenarios, case studies, reflective tools, action plans, checklists, and end-of-chapter quizzes

• Written for immediate use by nursing students, Clinicians, preceptorship programs, and unit-based educators

If you’re a UK nurse or student striving for practical excellence—especially in elderly care—Geriatric Nursing Excellence is your essential companion.