LynnMcCleary

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Please help me with how to suggest a major edit for a page and a name change. I am new to Wikipedia. The page Geriatric Nursing [[1]] has been noted to have multiple issues with a suggestion that it may need to be rewritten entirely. It is mostly about medical conditions associated with aging that are well covered on their own pages (e.g. the delirium page [[2]]) and not so much about what geriatric/gerontological nursing is. The term Geriatric Nursing is not generally used for this nursing specialty. The term that is used is Gerontological Nursing (e.g. National Gerontological Nursing Association in the USA http://www.ngna.org/ or Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association). I think that information about this nursing specialty should be on a page called Gerontological Nursing, not Geriatric Nursing.

I see that the history of the delirium page is that a group posted a notice that they planned to make a series of changes and listed them. I assume this is the process that I would use. However, I'm not sure about the name of the page being inappropriate, would it be better to try to start a new page for gerontological nursing?

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LynnMcCleary (talk) 16:33, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

There is no need of creating new page for Geriatric nursing, instead of creating a new page you can create a redirect. The notebox itself suggesting you the things to be fixed. CutestPenguin {talk • contribs} 16:59, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Gerontological nursing

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Delirium Source

Back in 2014, you edited the Wikipedia page on Delirium. You cited a full book, but linked to a chapter that was available online. Do you know if you meant to cite the whole book, or just that chapter? Sondra.kinsey (talk) 18:59, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

I'm not certain Sondra.kinsey. I made a few edits to that page. Maybe you're referring to the Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health practice guideline. It is now at this url: http://ccsmh.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/NatlGuideline_Delirium.pdf. --LynnMcCleary (talk) 15:07, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

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