DECISION MAKING IN GERONTOLOGIC NURSING provides practicing nurses with valuable assessment and intervention strategies in the clinical setting. This practical text enhances decision-making skills through the use of unique algorithm, or decision tree, which walks the nurse through pertinent principles of anatomy and physiology, a patient's history, clinical manifestations, interventions, and patient teaching. Divided into physical, psychosocial, and functional disorders, DECISION MAKING IN GERONTOLOGIC NURSING focuses on the conditions commonly seen in elderly people.