Guidance for the care of older people
- Author:
- NURSING AND MIDWIFERY COUNCIL
- Publisher:
- Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet provides guidance for best practice in the care of older people in community and hospital settings. It focuses on nursing care but may be of interest to other health and social care workers. The guidance is in three sections, reflecting the main elements to providing the fundamentals of care in a safe, effective way: people; process; place. The people section is about nurses who are efficient and able to deliver safe, effective quality care by being competent, assertive, reliable and empathetic. Process is about delivering care that promotes dignity and supports the older person's self-respect. Place recognises that care is provided in diverse environments and that that it should be committed to equality and diversity, appropriate, adequately resourced and effectively managed.
- Subject terms:
- nurses, nursing, older people, social care provision, user views, health care;
- Content type:
- practice guidance
- Location(s):
- United Kingdom
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