Public Health Nursing - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 11th Edition
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Gain a solid understanding of community and public health nursing with this industry-standard text! Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community, 11th Edition, provides up-to-date information on issues such as infectious diseases, natural and man-made disasters, and healthcare policies affecting individuals, families, and communities. This edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect current data, issues, trends, and practices presented in an easy-to-understand, accessible format. Additionally, real-life scenarios show examples of health promotion and public health interventions, and case studies for the Next-Generation NCLEX® Examination help strengthen your clinical judgment. Ideal for BSN and Advanced Practice Nursing programs, this comprehensive, bestselling text will provide you with a greater understanding of public health nursing!
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- Focus on Quality and Safety Education for Nurses boxes give examples of how quality and safety goals, competencies, and objectives, knowledge, skills, and attitudes can be applied in nursing practice in the community
- Evidence-Based Practice boxes illustrate the use and application of the latest research findings in public/community health nursing
- Healthy People boxes describe federal health and wellness goals and objectives
- Check Your Practice boxes feature a scenario and questions to promote active learning and encourage students to use clinical judgment skills as they contemplate how to best approach the task or problem in the scenario
- Linking Content to Practice boxes describe the nurse’s role in a variety of public and community health areas, giving specific examples of the nurse’s role in caring for individuals, families, and populations
- UNIQUE! Separate chapters covering promoting healthy communities, the Intervention Wheel, and nurse-led health centers teach students the initiatives and various approaches to population and community-centered nursing care
- Levels of Prevention boxes address the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of community/public health nursing as related to chapter content
- How To boxes provide practical application to practice
- End-of-chapter Practice Application scenarios, Key Points, and Clinical Judgment Activities promote application and in-depth understanding of chapter content
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- NEW! Updated content and figures reflect a stronger focus on population health, current data, issues, trends, and practices, including public health nursing and COVID-19
- NEW! Reorganized chapters create a stronger, more streamlined approach to aid in learning and better assist digital learners
- NEW! Healthy People 2030 objectives highlighted throughout the book address the health priorities and emerging health issues expected in the next decade
- NEW! Next-Generation NCLEX® Examination-Style Unfolding Case Studies on the Evolve companion website provide additional opportunities to expand clinical judgment
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Part 1: The Relationship Between Public Health Nursing and Population Health
1. Public Health Foundations, Population Health and Public Health Nursing
2. History of Public and Community Health Nursing
3. Public Health, Primary Care, and Primary Health Care Systems
4. Perspectives in Global Health Care
5. Economics of Health Care Delivery
Part 2: Factors Affecting Nurses in Public and Population Health
6. Health Equity and Population Vulnerability
7. Effects of the Environment on Population Health
8. Population-Centered Nursing in Rural and Urban Environments
9. Application of Ethics in the Community
10. Impact of Health Policy on Care Delivery
11. Evidence-Based Practice
Part 3: Conceptual and Scientific Frameworks Applied to Nursing Practice
12. Population-Based Public Health Nursing Practice: The Intervention Wheel
13. Genomics in Public Health Nursing
14. Epidemiology
15. Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
16. Communicable and Infectious Disease Risks
Part 4: Population Level Interventions
17. Partnerships for Population Health Care Interventions
18. Promoting Healthy Populations
19. Assessment and Analysis of Client Populations
20. Building a Culture of Health to Influence Health Equity Within Populations
Part 5: Planning Approaches to Population Health Care Delivery
21. The Nurse-Led Health Center: A Model for Community Nursing Practice
22. Public Health Nursing Practice and the Disaster Management Cycle
23. Public Health Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation
24. Program Management
25. Health Care Improvement in the Community
26. Management of Populations
Part 6: Promoting the Health of Target Populations Across the Life Span
27. Working With Family Populations With Health Risks for Healthy Outcomes
28. Maternal, Child and Adolescent Populations
29. Major Health Issues and Chronic Disease Management of Adults Across the Life Span
Part 7: Issues in Promoting the Health of Vulnerable Populations
30. The Homeless and Populations in Poverty
31. Immigrant and Migrant Health Issues
32. Mental Health Issues
33. Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Problems
34. Violence and Human Abuse
Part 8: Nurses’ Roles and Functions Working with Populations
35. Advanced Nursing Practice in the Community
36. The Nurse Leader in Population Health
37. The Nurse in the Schools
38. The Nurse in Occupational Health
39. Forensic Nursing in the Community
40. The Nurse in Faith Populations
41. Public Health Nursing at Local, State, and National Levels -
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