Talk:Geriatric nursing

Latest comment: 10 years ago by LynnMcCleary in topic Suggested revisions

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Hi, I noticed the request for comments at Wikipedia talk:Verifiability. So here they come:

Major issues, sources, target audience, poss copyvio

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This article has major issues. First is sourcing. Second is it is written to a specific audience. I have concern it may be copy/paste. This subject has significant coverage in reliable sources. The article needs a full rewrite to make it an encyclopedic article on the subject. - - MrBill3 (talk) 07:31, 21 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

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The note on this page suggest that the article may need to be completely rewritten.

I propose revising the page to include references and a more complete description of gerontological nursing (previously known as geriatric nursing). (See: Gerontological nursing sandbox). Feedback here or on the talk page of the sandbox would be welcome.

The page currently is mostly content about diseases that are common in older age. These are well covered on their own separate pages and they don't seem to be central to understanding what gerontological nursing is. Thus, they probably don't need to be on this page in any detail.

I propose moving/renaming the page to Gerontological Nursing. The reason is that this term replaced the term Geriatric Nursing beginning in the 1970's (see: Touhy, Theris A.; Jett, Kathleen F. (2014). Ebersole and Hess' gerontological nursing & healthy aging (4th ed.). St. Louis, Mo.: Elsevier/Mosby. ISBN 9780323096065.)

--LynnMcCleary (talk) 18:03, 9 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

I moved my suggested new content to the page. I also renamed/moved the page to "Gerontological nursing" from "Geriatric nursing". As a new editor, suggestions and comments would be welcome.
--LynnMcCleary (talk) 16:37, 11 July 2014 (UTC)Reply