Overview
- In Open Access
- Presents evidence-based orthogeriatric and fragility fracture nursing practice
- Written by an international team of clinical experts in the field
- Supports the programme of the Fragility Fracture Network
Part of the book series: Perspectives in Nursing Management and Care for Older Adults (PNMCOA)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Global estimates suggest that there were 21 million men and 137 million women aged 50 years or more at high fracture risk in 2010. This incidence is expected to double by 2040, with the most significant increase in Asia. Fragility fracture is one of the foremost challenges for health care providers and thehe global demand for nursing care for patients with fragility fractures across the world is immense. Hip fracture is particularly challenging as these significant injuries often occur in frail older people requiring hospitalisation and orthopaedic surgery. Such injuries and associated surgery result in increased frailty, worsening health and wellbeing, pain, disability, reduced quality of life, loss of independence, and decreased life expectancy. Care providers need to understand the experience of fragility fracture from the perspective of patients and families so that direct improvements in care can be based on the perspectives of the users.
Expert care of patients following fractures that require hospitalisation and orthopaedic surgery involves skill in the care and treatment of frail older people as we as individuals with an injury and undergoing surgery. Nurses have a significant role in interdisciplinary collaborative care provided through orthogeriatric models of care. There is increasing evidence that such models significantly improve patient outcomes. High quality, evidence-based orthogeriatric care is increasingly shown to havepositive impact on outcomes for recovery, rehabilitation, and secondary prevention of further fracture.
This book significantly supports the aims and values of the Fragility Fracture Network and, as such, supports the learning needs of nurses and other allied health professionals which will enable a comprehensive approach to nursing practice in orthogeriatric and fragility fracture care.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Julie Santy-Tomlinson is a registered nurse with long standing clinical interests in orthopedic and trauma nursing and nursing care of the older adult. As well as a clinical nursingcareer, she worked in nursing education in the UK for more than 20 years. She is Emeritus Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing and has authored, co-authored, and co-edited numerous journal papers, clinical guidelines, books, and book chapters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fragility Fracture and Orthogeriatric Nursing
Book Subtitle: Holistic Care and Management of the Fragility Fracture and Orthogeriatric Patient
Editors: Karen Hertz, Julie Santy-Tomlinson
Series Title: Perspectives in Nursing Management and Care for Older Adults
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33484-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33483-2Published: 09 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33486-3Published: 09 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-33484-9Published: 08 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2522-8838
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8846
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XX, 307
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nursing Management, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Orthopedics