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Community Health •
Community-BasedNursing • Public Health
IntroductiontoCommunity-BasedNursing, FifthEdition
RobertaHunt, RN,MSN
978-1-60913-686-4 • January2012 • Softbound • 7” x11” •482pp. • 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-basednursing care.Theauthor 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
•
TheNurseSpeaks /TheNursingStudentSpeaks
is a real-life,
clinical, community-basednursingexampleopeningeach chapter.
•
HealthyPeople2020
, the foundation for thenation’s 10-year
healthobjectives, is examinedandappliedwherever relevant,
providing themost up-to-date informationon community issues
suchas access to care, obesity, emerging infectiousdiseases,
technological advances, andalternative complementary therapies.
•
ClientSituations inPracticeBoxes
examine real life community-
basednursing situations and solutions specific toeach chapter’s
content.
•
AssessmentToolsBoxes
provideopportunities toapply learning
and test knowledgegained.
Table of Contents
UNIT I:
BasicConcepts in
Community-BasedNursing
Ch. 1:Overview of Community-Based
Nursing
Ch. 2:HealthPromotion andDisease
Prevention
Ch. 3: Cultural Care
Ch. 4: FamilyCare
UNIT II:
Community-BasedNursing
Across the LifeSpan
Ch. 5: Assessment of Individuals, Families,
andCommunities for Population-BasedCare
Ch. 6:HealthTeaching
Ch. 7: Continuity of Care:Discharge
Planning andCaseManagement
UNIT III:
Skills forCommunity-Based
NursingPractice
Ch. 8:HealthPromotion andDisease and
Injury Prevention forMaternal/Infant
Populations, Children, andAdolescents
Ch. 9:HealthPromotion andDisease and
Injury Prevention for Adults
Ch. 10:HealthPromotion andDisease and
Injury Prevention forOlder Adults
UNIT IV:
Settings for Practice
Ch. 11: Practice Settings and Specialties
Ch. 12:HomeHealthCareNursing
Ch. 13: SpecializedHomeHealthCare
Nursing
Ch. 14:MentalHealthNursing in
Community-Based Settings
Ch. 15: GlobalHealth andCommunity-
BasedCare
UNITV:
Implications for Future
Practice
Ch. 16:Trends inCommunity-Based
Nursing
AppendixA:
NutritionQuestionnaires
for Infants,Children, andAdolescents
AppendixB:
Implications forTeaching
atVariousDevelopmental Stages
AppendixC:
CognitiveStages and
Approaches toPatient Educationwith
Children
Index