Now in its Seventh Edition, this comprehensive text provides unique coverage of vulnerable aggregate populations while using the levels of prevention approach. The book focuses on public health concerns including health promotion and protection, provides strong nursing application coverage, and addresses timely issues such as disaster nursing, urban clients, and clients with disabilities/chronic illness. This edition retains popular features such as "Stop and Think" boxes, levels of prevention displays, and Using the Nursing Process and includes new features such as Evidence: The Bridge to Practice, Healthy People 2020, Student Voices, and appendices of communicable diseases.
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Summarizes research study findings pertinent to chapter topics in Research Highlights boxes. Highlights specific ethical issues in Ethical Insights boxes. Presents Healthy People 2010 objectives in feature boxes in appropriate chapters.
Written in an accessible, user-friendly, and practical style, this text provides a focused and highly engaging introduction to community health nursing.
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Achieving this is dependent on nurses and public health practitioners implementing the core functions of practice—assessment, assurance, and policy development.
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This is an essential text for all pre-registration nursing students, students on specialist community nursing courses, and qualified nurses entering community practice for the first time.
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Comprehensive and accessible, this well established text draws on awide range of subject experts all aiming for excellence in servicedelivery, to produce a resource that addresses the key aspects ofcommunity health delivery reflecting the ...
A key text for the core elements of community health courses. Identifies frameworks which can help define new roles in practice and will stimulate discussions on the common challenges and concerns relevant to all nurses in the community.