• Genomics coverage provides a history of genetics and genomics and how they impact public/community health nursing care. • Focus on health promotion throughout the text emphasizes initiatives, strategies, and interventions that promote the health of the community. • Clinical Application scenarios present practice situations with questions and answers to help you apply chapter concepts to practice in the community. • Evidence-Based Practice boxes highlight current research findings, their application to practice, and how community/public health nurses can apply the study results. • Levels of Prevention boxes identify specific nursing interventions at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels, to reinforce the concept of prevention as it pertains to community and public health care. • Linking Content to Practice boxes highlight how chapter content is applied in the role of public/community health nursing. • Coverage of ongoing health care reform issues includes the impact of legislation on public health nursing.
NEW! Updated content and figures reflect the most current data, issues, trends, and practices, including public health nursing and COVID-19.
NEW! Reorganized chapters are streamlined to make learning easier.
NEW! Healthy People 2030 objectives are highlighted throughout the book, addressing the health priorities and emerging health issues expected in the next decade.
NEW! Applying Clinical Judgment in Practice boxes feature scenarios and discussion questions that help you develop clinical judgment skills.
NEW! AACN boxes describe the competencies, quality and safety goals, objectives, knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to become a professional nurse in the community.
NEW! Unfolding case studies for the Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) are provided on the companion Evolve website,offering additional opportunities to build clinical judgment.
Section 1: The Relationship Between Public Health Nursing and Population Health 1. Public Health Foundations and Population Health 2. History of Public Health, Public Health Nursing, and Population Health 3. U.S. and Global Health Care 4. Impact of Health Policy on Care Delivery 5. Economics of Public and Population Health Care Delivery
Section 2: Factors Affecting Nurses in Public and Population Health Nursing 6. Influence of Ethics on Care Delivery 7. Building a Culture of Health to Influence Health Equity within Populations 8. Effects of the Environment on Population Health 9. Evidence-Based Practice
Section 3: Conceptual and Scientific Frameworks Applied to Public and Population Health Nursing Practice 10. Epidemiological Applications 11. Infectious Disease Prevention and Control 12. Communicable and Infection Disease Risks 13. Assessment and Analysis of Client Populations 14. Partnerships for Population Health Care Interventions
Section 4: Planning Approaches to Population Health Care Delivery 15. Management of Populations 16. Public Health Nursing Practice and the Disaster Management Cycle 17. Public Health Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation 18. Program Management 19. Healthcare Improvement in the Community
Section 5: Promoting the Health of Target Populations Across the Life Span 20. Working with Family Populations with Health Risks for Healthy Outcomes 21. Genomics in Public and Population Health Nursing 22. Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Populations 23. Major Health Issues and Chronic Disease Management of Adults across the Life Span
Section 6: Issues in Promoting the Health of Vulnerable Populations 24. Health Inequity and Population Vulnerability 25. Rural Health and Health Issues of Migrant, Immigrant, and Refugee Populations 26. Poverty, Homelessness, and Mental Illness 27. Substance Abuse Within Populations 28. Violence and Human Abuse in Populations
Section 7: Nurses' Roles and Functions Working with Populations 29. Public Health Nursing at Local, State, and National Levels 30. The Faith Community Nurse 31. The Nurse in the Schools 32. The Nurse in Occupational Health
Lisa M. Turner, PhD, RN, PHCNS-BC, Associate Professor, Nursing, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, USA and Krista Lynn Jones, DNP, MSN, RN, PHNA-BC, ELAN Fellow, Director, Urbana Regional Campus, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Population Health Nursing Science, UIC College of Nursing, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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