cover image - Community/Public Health Nursing Practice, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9781455707621
Copyright: 2013
Publication Date: 10-01-2012
Page Count: 888
Imprint: Saunders
List Price: $117.99

Community/Public Health Nursing Practice, 5th Edition

by Frances A. Maurer, MS, RN-BC and Claudia M. Smith, PhD, MPH, RN-BC

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cover image - Community/Public Health Nursing Practice, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9781455707621
Copyright: 2013
Publication Date: 10-01-2012
Page Count: 888
Imprint: Saunders
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Focusing on practical, need-to-know information, Community/Public Health Nursing Practice helps you learn how to apply the nursing process at the community and family level. It features an engaging, easy-to-understand writing style, as well as assessment tools, detailed case studies, and clinical examples that demonstrate how key concepts apply to real-world practice. Additional resources on the companion Evolve website expand and enhance content within the text.

      • Practical features including Case Studies, Ethics in Practice, and The Nursing Process in Practice illustrate real-world applications of key community/public health nursing concepts.
      • A complete unit on the community as client helps you understand how the assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation steps of the nursing process apply to the community, as opposed to an individual.
      • A chapter devoted to community assessment provides a complete assessment tool and shows you how the tool applies to two different types of communities.
      • UNIQUE! A chapter on screening and referral promotes population-focused practice, which is the crux of community/public health nursing.
      • A separate unit on the family emphasizes the importance of viewing the family as a singular client.
      • A complete discussion of the Minnesota Wheel helps you better understand this widely-accepted framework for community/public health nursing practice.
      • Helpful sections such as Focus Questions, Chapter Outlines, Key Ideas, and Learning by Experience and Reflection help you pinpoint essential information.
      • NEW! Healthy People 2020 objectives throughout the text help you identify common health risk factors in populations and families.
      • NEW! Coverage of health care reform, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), explores how current health care legislation impacts community/public health nursing.
      • NEW! Discussions of community health "hot button" issues, such as human trafficking, genital circumcision, and bullying, introduce you to today's health care challenges.
      • NEW! Information on weather-related disaster fatalities, bioterrorism, and national and state planning responses familiarize you with current, relevant issues which affect the health of populations worldwide and shape the role of the community/public health nurse.
    • Unit 1: Role and Context of Community/Public Health Nursing Practice

      1. Responsibilities for Care in Community/Public Health Nursing

      2. Origins and Future of Community/Public Health Nursing

      3. The United States Health Care System

      4. Financing of Health Care: Context for Community/Public Health Nursing

      5. Global Health

      6. Legal Context for Community/Public Health Nursing Practice

      Unit 2: Core Concepts for the Practice of Community/Public Health Nursing

      7. Epidemiology: Unraveling the Mysteries of Disease and Health

      8. Communicable Diseases

      9. Environmental Health Risks: At Home, at Work, and in the Community

      10. Relevance of Culture and Values for Community/Public Health Nursing

      Unit 3: Family as Client

      11. Home Visit: Opening the Doors for Family Health

      12. A Family Perspective in Community/Public Health Nursing

      13. Family Case Management

      14. Multiproblem Families

      Unit 4: Community as Client

      15. Community Assessment

      16. Community Diagnosis, Planning, and Intervention

      17. Evaluation of Nursing Care with Communities

      Unit 5: Tools for Practice

      18. Health Promotion and Risk Reduction in the Community

      19. Screening and Referral

      20. Health Teaching

      Unit 6: Contemporary Problems in Community/Public Health Nursing

      21. Vulnerable Populations

      22. Disaster Management: Caring for Communities in an Emergency

      23. Violence: A Social and Family Problem

      24. Adolescent Sexual Activity and Teenage Pregnancy

      25. Substance Use Disorders

      Unit 7: Support for Special Populations

      26. Rehabilitation Clients in the Community

      27. Children in the Community

      28. Elderly Persons in the Community

      Unit 8: Settings for Community/Public Health Nursing Practice

      29. State and Local Health Departments

      30. School Health

      31. Home Health Care

      32. Rural Health

      33. Community Mental Health
    • Frances A. Maurer, MS, RN-BC, Community Health Educator and Consultant, Baltimore, Maryland and Claudia M. Smith, PhD, MPH, RN-BC, Community/Public Health Nursing Educator and Consultant, Bowie, Maryland
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