Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Issuing Guidelines for Geriatric EDs

ENA joins groups in issuing guidelines for geriatric EDs

In response to the proliferation of geriatric EDs geared specifically to patients ages 65 and older, the Emergency Nurses Association, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Geriatrics Society and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine have issued a comprehensive set of geriatric ED guidelines covering everything from staffing to education to handling common problems of aging, such as falls, delirium and dementia. Click here to read the full article posted March 5, 2014 at Nurse.com.