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Community Health •
Community-Based Nursing • Public Health
Introduction to Community-Based Nursing, Fifth Edition
Roberta Hunt, RN, MSN
978-1-60913-686-4 • January 2012 • Softbound • 7” x 11” • 482 pp. • 144 Illus.
This text presents foundational concepts pivotal to delivering nursing
care in the community setting, with specific attention to the NLN
competencies for community-based nursing care. The author examines
the variety of settings and situations in which the community-based
nurse provides care, highlighting cultural diversities in the patient
populations, and emphasizing interactions between the individual and
the family.
Features
•
The Nurse Speaks / The Nursing Student Speaks
is a real-life,
clinical, community-based nursing example opening each chapter.
•
Healthy People 2020
, the foundation for the nation’s 10-year
health objectives, is examined and applied wherever relevant,
providing the most up-to-date information on community issues
such as access to care, obesity, emerging infectious diseases,
technological advances, and alternative complementary therapies.
•
Client Situations in Practice Boxes
examine real life community-
based nursing situations and solutions specific to each chapter’s
content.
•
Assessment Tools Boxes
provide opportunities to apply learning
and test knowledge gained.
Table of Contents
UNIT I:
Basic Concepts in
Community-Based Nursing
Ch. 1: Overview of Community-Based
Nursing
Ch. 2: Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention
Ch. 3: Cultural Care
Ch. 4: Family Care
UNIT II:
Community-Based Nursing
Across the Life Span
Ch. 5: Assessment of Individuals, Families,
and Communities for Population-Based Care
Ch. 6: Health Teaching
Ch. 7: Continuity of Care: Discharge
Planning and Case Management
UNIT III:
Skills for Community-Based
Nursing Practice
Ch. 8: Health Promotion and Disease and
Injury Prevention for Maternal/Infant
Populations, Children, and Adolescents
Ch. 9: Health Promotion and Disease and
Injury Prevention for Adults
Ch. 10: Health Promotion and Disease and
Injury Prevention for Older Adults
UNIT IV:
Settings for Practice
Ch. 11: Practice Settings and Specialties
Ch. 12: Home Health Care Nursing
Ch. 13: Specialized Home Health Care
Nursing
Ch. 14: Mental Health Nursing in
Community-Based Settings
Ch. 15: Global Health and Community-
Based Care
UNITV:
Implications for Future
Practice
Ch. 16: Trends in Community-Based
Nursing
Appendix A:
Nutrition Questionnaires
for Infants, Children, and Adolescents
Appendix B:
Implications for Teaching
at Various Developmental Stages
Appendix C:
Cognitive Stages and
Approaches to Patient Education with
Children
Index