Textbook Of Community Health Nursing Pb

Section 1: Concepts of community, health and nursing Section 2: Determinants of health Section 3: Concepts of epidemiology Section 4: Communicable diseases Section 5: Non-communicable diseases Section 6: Demography Section 7: Concepts of community health and community health nursing Section 8: Health planning, policies and problems Section 9: Delivery of community health services Section 10: Components of health services Section 11: Community health nursing approaches Section 12: Roles and responsibilities of community health nursing personnel Section 13: Job responsibilities of community health nursing personnel Section 14: Health and social issues Section 15: National health programs Section 16: Health agencies

The book has been developed to provide students with the knowledge and skills in the area of community health nursing. Care has been taken to cover all the contents in this revised edition as required by the respective Councils and Boards of Nursing and Universities. The text also presents the contents that represent the most accurate, current and clinically relevant information that are written in clearly and easily read manner.

Community & Public Health Nursing is designed to provide students a basic grounding in public health nursing principles while emphasizing aggregate-level nursing. While weaving in meaningful examples from practice throughout the text, the authors coach students on how to navigate between conceptualizing about a population-focus while also continuing to advocate and care for individuals, families, and aggregates. This student-friendly, highly illustrated text engages students, and by doing so, eases students into readily applying public health principles along with evidence-based practice, nursing science, and skills that promote health, prevent disease, as well as protect at-risk populations! What the 8th edition of this text does best is assist students in broadening the base of their knowledge and skills that they can employ in both the community and acute care settings, while the newly enhanced ancillary resources offers interactive tools that allow students of all learning styles to master public health nursing.

Prepare for a successful career as a community/public health nurse! Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community, 9th Edition provides up-to-date information on issues that impact public health nursing, such as infectious diseases, natural and man-made disasters, and health care policies affecting individuals, families, and communities. Real-life scenarios show examples of health promotion and public health interventions. New to this edition is an emphasis on QSEN skills and an explanation of the influence of the Affordable Care Act on public health. Written by well-known nursing educators Marcia Stanhope and Jeanette Lancaster, this comprehensive, bestselling text is ideal for students in both BSN and Advanced Practice Nursing programs. Evidence-Based Practice and Cutting Edge boxes illustrate the use and application of the latest research findings in public/community health nursing. Healthy People 2020 boxes highlight goals and objectives for promoting the nation’s health and wellness over the next decade. Levels of Prevention boxes identify specific nursing interventions at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. Practice Application scenarios help you apply chapter content to the practice setting by analyzing case situations and answering critical thinking questions. Linking Content to Practice boxes provide examples of the nurse’s role in caring for individuals, families, and populations in community health settings. Unique! Separate chapters on healthy cities, the Minnesota Intervention Wheel, and nursing centers describe different approaches to community health initiatives. Community/Public Health Nursing Online consists of 14 modules that bring community health situations to life, each including a reading assignment, case scenarios with learning activities, an assessment quiz, and critical thinking questions. Sold separately. NEW! Coverage of health care reform discusses the impact of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) on public health nursing. NEW! Focus on Quality and Safety Education for Nurses boxes give examples of how quality and safety goals, knowledge, competencies and skills, and attitudes can be applied to nursing practice in the community.

Community and Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Public’s Health, 10th Edition delivers an engaging introduction to the principles of public health nursing and employs a highly visual, student-friendly approach to guide students in developing the understanding and skills to confidently promote health, foster disease prevention, and protect at-risk populations — including older adults, homeless populations, veterans, refugees, and the LGBTQ community — whether practicing in acute care or community and public health settings. Extensively revised and featuring a wealth of real-world examples, this updated edition reflects today’s most prominent public health issues and empowers students to provide the most effective nursing care wherever they may choose to practice.

This book in its fourth edition has been revised and updated extensively both in content and by addition of chapters. The new chapters on setting up Health clinic, Town planning, Rehabilitation and Statistics have been added. But the basic approach to the presentation remains the same as designed by the author. Unlike many other textbooks on the subject the emphasis is on the practical aspects of Community Health Nursing. Hence this will facilitate the process of skill development along with acquisition of knowledge in the subject In terms of the comprehensiveness of the content and readability, this textbook will continue to be of immense help to students of Community Health.