Ebersole and Hess' Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging
Touhy, Jett · 6th Edition
Complete chapter-by-chapter study guide aligned with Ebersole and Hess' Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging (6th Edition). Includes summaries, learning objectives, and NCLEX-style practice questions for all 28 chapters.
Overview
Ebersole and Hess' Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging (6th Edition) by Touhy and Jett is the concise, clinical-judgment-focused version of their gerontology text, and this study guide matches it chapter for chapter. You study in the book's own order across its five sections — the foundations of healthy aging, the foundations of gerontological nursing, the fundamentals of caring, promoting health in chronic illness, and caring for elders and their caregivers. For each of the 28 chapters you get a plain-English summary of the essential ideas, the chapter's learning objectives listed up front so your study has clear targets, and 30 or more NCLEX-style questions, each paired with a full rationale. The rationales are the point: they explain why the right answer is right and why the tempting distractors are wrong, building the clinical judgment the licensure exam rewards. Written from scratch to follow the 6th Edition's section structure and numbering — including its emphasis on recognizing and analyzing cues — the guide lets you jump straight to your current topic: cross-cultural clinical judgment, biological theories and age-related cues, safe medication use, and the fundamentals chapters on nutrition, hydration and oral health, bowel and bladder health, rest and activity, skin, fall risk, and safe environments. It also tracks the chronic-illness chapters on pain, hearing and vision, metabolic, bone and joint, cardiovascular, respiratory, and neurological disorders, and mental health, plus the closing chapters on neurocognitive disorders, relationships and transitions, caregiver health, and loss and palliative care. You can highlight it, annotate it, and return to it before unit exams, your gerontology final, and the NCLEX-RN. Built for active recall instead of rereading, it turns dense aging content into questions you can drill until the cues, interventions, and priorities stick. Original, independently written, and not affiliated with the publisher.
Built for gerontological nursing courses and written in NCLEX-RN style, so the practice questions and rationales reflect how older-adult content appears on unit exams and the licensure exam.
- 840+ practice questions
- 28 chapters
- ~120 pages
- Instant PDF download
What you'll learn
The major topics this guide walks you through, matched to the textbook's order:
- Foundations of healthy aging
- Recognizing and analyzing cues
- Cross-cultural clinical judgment
- Biological theories of aging
- Safe medication use
- Nutrition, hydration, and oral health
- Bowel and bladder health
- Fall risk reduction and safe environments
- Chronic illness management
- Pain relief
- Neurocognitive disorders
- Mental health promotion
- Caregiver health
- Loss, death, and palliative care
Need the textbook itself?
The textbook itself, by Theris A. Touhy and Kathleen Jett (Elsevier), is the concise, clinical-judgment-focused gerontology text in the Ebersole & Hess line, aligned with the Next Generation NCLEX cue-recognition model.
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Chapters covered
Every chapter below is fully covered in the PDF — summary, learning objectives, key terms, and NCLEX-style practice questions with rationales.
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What exactly do I get?
A printable PDF study guide covering all 28 chapters of Ebersole and Hess' Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging (6th Edition) — chapter summaries, learning objectives, and NCLEX-style practice questions with rationales. One file, lifetime access, no subscription.
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Does this match the 6th Edition specifically?
Yes — it's built around the 6th Edition, following its chapter numbering and unit structure. If your course uses an earlier edition, most concepts still line up, though some chapters may be renumbered.
Does it include the Next Generation NCLEX cue-recognition emphasis?
Yes — the guide mirrors the 6th Edition's focus on recognizing and analyzing cues, and the practice questions are written in current NCLEX style with full rationales.
Will it match my edition?
This guide is built around the 6th Edition. If your class uses a different edition, chapter numbering may shift slightly, but the topics and learning objectives are usually unchanged.
Do I still need the textbook?
The study guide is a companion, not a replacement — it helps you study efficiently and review fast, but you'll still want the textbook for full depth and any assigned readings. You can buy new, rent, or find a used copy through the price links on this page.
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Is this a test bank or copied from the textbook?
No. This is an original study guide written to align with Ebersole and Hess' Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging — summaries, objectives, and practice questions with rationales, not a reproduced publisher test bank or copied text.
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About this study guide
This is an original study guide written to align with the topics and learning objectives covered in Ebersole and Hess' Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging (6th Edition) by Touhy, Jett. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or licensed by the publisher or the textbook's authors. All summaries, practice questions, and explanations are independently authored.