Maurer and Smith (both: U. of Maryland School of Nursing) intend this updated text for undergraduates in community/public health nursing. Thirty-three chapter topics are organized into eight units which address the role and context of the community health nurse; an introduction to epidemiology and consideration of environment-related health risks and the role of cultural competency in the profession; a discussion of strategies for working with and assessing families as clients; coverage of the community and population approach to community health nursing; strategies for population-focused intervention; discussion of contemporary problems in the field including vulnerable populations, disaster management, family and community violence, and teenage pregnancy; detailed discussion of persons with disabilities, children, and elderly person; and settings for community/public health nursing practice. Expanded content in this update includes discussion of the most current Healthy People 2010 objectives, in-home care of the ill, migrant health problems, contemporary tools for addictions screening, interventions for improving responsible teen sexual behaviors, and environmental aspects of school health, among many other topics. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) distributed by Syndetic Solutions, LLC.

This unique, problem-solving, case-based approach shows you how. You’ll encounter different case studies in every chapter—that explore concepts such as community assessments, public health policy, and surveillance. Step by step, you’ll develop the knowledge and skills you need to apply public health principles across a variety of health care settings, special populations, and scenarios.

Community and Public Health Nursing, 3rd Edition Rosanna F. DeMarco, PhD, RN, PHCNS-BC, APHN-BC, FAAN; and Judith Healey-Walsh, PhD, RN Turn evidence-based data into confident clinical decisions. Succinct, approachable, and logically organized, Community and Public Health Nursing, 3rd Edition, helps you develop the critical thinking skills and complex reasoning abilities you need to connect data with effective decisions in community and public health practice. This extensively revised, heavily illustrated edition emphasizes an evidence-based perspective and focuses on the individual in the context of the community setting and on the global community to equip you for challenges you'll encounter throughout your nursing career. Case Studies stimulate your critical thinking and analytic skills. Evidence for Practice Briefs offer objective evidence obtained from research and guide you in making practice decisions. Practice Points highlight important practice considerations for fast reference. Student Perspectives make chapter content relatable with relevant insights from real students. Critical Thinking Questions test your ability to combine research, context, and judgment for effective critical analysis. Ethical Legal Issues vignettes alert you to ethical and legal concerns unique to community and public health nursing practice. How To Boxes detail specific steps for completing common tasks. Levels of Prevention Boxes help you master primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of disease and illness. Chapter Highlights point out key chapter content to help you study efficiently. Key Concepts and Key Terms familiarize you with concepts and terminology essential to your understanding. Objectives help you identify observable goals for the completion of each chapter. Updated Healthy People 2020 coverage and learning activities help you meet national objectives and apply concepts to real-life scenarios. Community Resources connect you to sources of help or information available in most communities.

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.

Community/Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Populations, 4th Edition focuses on the issues and responsibilities of contemporary community/public health nursing. Its emphasis on working with populations combined with the unique "upstream" preventive approach prepares the reader to assume an active role in caring for the health of clients in community and public settings. Plus, the new full-color design highlights special features and enhances content. Features photo-novellas to engage students and demonstrate applications of important community health nursing concepts. Provides detailed case studies that emphasize community aspects of all steps of the nursing process to promote the community perspective in all health situations. Examines issues of social justice and discusses how to target inequalities in arenas such as education, jobs, and housing to prepare students to function in a community-focused health care system. Demonstrates the use of theoretical frameworks common to community and public health nursing showing how familiar and new theory bases can be used to solve problems and challenges in the community. Illustrates real-life situations with highlighted Clinical Examples depicting today's community/public health care. Discussion of Levels of Prevention presented within the Case Studies address specific applications for each level. Provides Learning Activities at the end of each chapter to challenge students to apply chapter material outside the classroom. Includes a disaster management and preparedness chapter to examine this important new area of concern and responsibility in community health. Offers content on forensic nursing to explore this new subspecialty in community health. Summarizes research study findings pertinent to chapter topics in Research Highlights boxes. Highlights specific ethical issues in Ethical Insights boxes. Presents Healthy People 2010 objectives in feature boxes in appropriate chapters. Provides a Media Resources section at the front of each chapter that details the numerous Evolve components available to students. Chapter outline added to the front of chapters makes locating information in the chapter easier.

Developed as an advanced text for students in public and community health nursing, this book presents a summary of the core functions of population-based practice, emphasizing evidence-based research. Porche (nursing, Nursing Research and Evaluation, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

Written by advanced practice public/community health nurse experts, this comprehensive resource for advanced practice nursing students and clinicians builds upon the core foundations of practice: social justice, interdisciplinary practice, community involvement, disease prevention, and health promotion. Interweaving theory, practice, and contemporary issues, Advanced Public and Community Health Nursing Practice, Second Edition, provides essential knowledge needed to successfully assess communities, diagnose community situations, plan programs and budgets, and evaluate programs in public and community health. This revised edition has been thoroughly updated to encompass the evolution of public/community health nursing practice during the past 15 years. With several examples of community assessments, community health program plans, and evidence-based and best-practice interventions, the content in this publication addresses the core processes of advanced public/community health nursing practice. Chapters integrate new material about the physical environment and cover key changes in nursing education and practice and healthcare financing and delivery. This new edition includes additional content on culture and diversity, in-depth theory and conceptual frameworks, doctoral preparation, and policy. New to the Second Edition: Completely new information reflecting changes in nursing education and practice and healthcare financing and delivery Abundant examples of community assessments and community health program plans Evidence-based/best-practice interventions, programs, and services Clinical/practicum activities to help learners apply content in varied settings Suggested readings and references to support more in-depth study Additional information about the physical environment, culture and diversity, doctoral preparation, and policy Interprofessional/interdisciplinary practice In-depth information regarding theories and conceptual frameworks New references, examples, case studies, problems, and discussion questions Key Features: Provides comprehensive, in-depth information regarding community assessment, program planning, program implementation, evaluation, and program revision Delivers timely knowledge about using evidence, practice standards, public health ethics, Healthy People 2020, and competent practice in varied settings Includes realistic case studies of program and evaluation plans Presents examples of programs and projects conducted by advanced practice public/community health nurses