A unique text designed specifically for use throughout the associate degree nursing (ADN) curriculum, [this volume] provides students with a solid foundation for administering nursing care in the community. [It] provide[s] an overview of the health care system, an introduction to the epidemiology of health and illness, and an exploration of the factors that influence the health and care of individuals and families living in the community.-Back cover.

This introduction to community based nursing roles and concepts focuses on nursing care of the individual in a community setting. The text is divided into four units that cover the knowledge base for concepts and the application of concepts. Basic concepts are presented in the first unit, with discussion of practice settings, levels of prevention, health promotion, the family and cultural considerations. Three basic skills of the community based nursing - communicating, educating and managing - are examined in the second unit. The third unit explains the application of skills and concepts to continuity of care, discharge planning, community resources and referrals and home health practice. The fourth unit prepares the reader for what's ahead, with a look into future trends in community based nursing.

With COMMUNITY-BASED NURSING CARE: MAKING THE TRANSITION, students learn everything they need to know about providing direct nursing care to clients in community settings.The book offers practical skills and knowledge about the services community-based nurses provide and about the varied client populations they serve. It covers the many community settings in which nurses provide care, including the home, clinics, schools, shelters, and residential centers. * Written in an easily understood conversational style to facilitate student comprehension. * Offers learning objectives for each chapter as an overview of chapter content. * Provides key terms with definitions to highlight important terminology. * Contains student quotes for student commentary on each chapter. * Features resources boxes and suggested readings lists that provide additional sources of chapter information and promote further study. * Includes key points that summarize important chapter information to aid in student review. * Presents critical thinking questions that promote problem-solving abilities and challenge reasoning skills. * Includes application exercises that provide practical learning activities to challenge students to apply chapter material outside the classroom. * Provides assessment boxes that present how-to information to assess clients for specific disorders. * Incorporates case studies that present "real-life" clinical community situations. * Details specific nursing assessment and treatment information for many major illnesses, such as diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease, which are essential components of community-based nursing. * Devotes separate chapters to the pediatric, adult, and elderly developmental stages, stressing the unique issues related to nursing care for these populations. * Includes a separate chapter on nursing care for maternal-infant clients, who are often seen only in community settings. * Features a separate chapter on clients with mental health disorders, a population prevalent in community-based settings, that emphasizes the unique matters related to care of clients with these disorders. * Includes a separate chapter devoted to legal and ethical considerations related to community-based nursing. * Incorporates a two-color design throughout, helping highlight key information and providing a user-friendly resource for students. (Includes a FREE MERLIN website at: www.harcourthealth.com/MERLIN/Ayers/)

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 Health Nursing: Caring for the Public’s Health, Third Edition focuses on teaching nursing students about population health and community health nursing