Synopses & Reviews
Revised throughout, with a new chapter on care of the disabled and simple first aid, and with a completely rewritten chapter on community nursing, this manual treats in detail those subjects necessary for effective public health nursing and health education in developing countries. The authors give a careful account of all aspects of the community nurse's task, stressing the vital importance of personal communication and of the teaching of sanitation, cleanliness, and basic health principles. This book will be useful not only to nurses but to anyone working in international health and relief programs.
Table of Contents
1. Confusion - a description or a diagnosis of a common problem?
2. Delirium (acute confusional state)
3. Dementia
4. Other confusional states
5. History and examination of an old person with a confusional state
6. Confusional states with relatively rapid onset and course
7. Confusional states with gradual onset and prolonged course
8. The investigation of confusional states
9. Management of confusional states in old people.