title: Gerontological nursing practice standards: achievement and importance.
abstract: The 1987 ANA Standards of Gerontological Nursing Practice is compared with the 1976 Standards and found to be a new document, not simply a revision. These 1987 standards are assessed using five queries: progression, timeliness, adequacy of scope, substance, and form. Eighteen nurses practicing at a long term care facility in the midwest rated both the achievement and importance of these new standards. Descriptive data analysis demonstrated unmet expectations for all but 1 of the 11 standards. One appropriate function of the gerontological clinical nurse specialist is ongoing evaluation of these nursing practice standards which will continue to describe and prescribe professional nursing practice.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bliesmer
mesh_terms: D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D012956:Societies, Nursing