Essentials of Community-Based Nursing + Dubuisson: Hospital to Home: A Pocket Guide (2-Book Package)

by Lundy, Karen Saucier

• ISBN13: 9780763731731
• ISBN10: 0763731730
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett

Summary

Essentials of Community-Based Nursing provides associate degree students with a solid foundation for administering nursing care in the community. Grounded in the National League for Nursing competency standards for A.D.N graduates and containing all the features of the AJN Book of the Year Award-winning main text, Essentials takes into consideration the recent changes in the healthcare system and resulting shifts in settings and roles for nurses.

Table of Contents

Dedication	vi
About the Authors	vii
Contributors	viii
Contributors to Chapter Special Features	x
Reviewers	xii
Foreword	xiv
Preface	xv
PART ONE Community--Focused Nursing Care
UNIT I The Context of Community Health Nursing	5	(60)
Opening the Door to Health Care in the Community	7	(22)
Karen Saucier Lundy
Sharyn Janes
Sherry Hartman
Health Care Systems in Transition	29	(18)
Bonita R. Reinert
Epidemiology of Health and Illness	47	(18)
Gail A. Harkness
UNIT II Factors Influencing Community Health	65	(110)
Environmental Health	67	(34)
Carol J. Nyman
Patricia Butterfield
Jean Shreffer
Politics and the Law	101	(20)
Sharyn Janes
Karen Saucier Lundy
Heather Rakauskas Sherry
Transcultural Nursing and Global Health	121	(18)
Sharyn Janes
Communicable Disease	139	(36)
Sharyn Janes
Gale A. Spencer
UNIT III Approaches to Community Health Nursing Practice	175	(82)
Nursing Informatics in Community Health Nursing Practice	177	(14)
Russell C. McGuire
Health Education in the Community	191	(26)
Lucy Bradley-Springer
Health Promotion and Wellness	217	(22)
Joan H. Baldwin
Cynthia O'Neill Conger
Holistic and Complementary Health	239	(18)
Margaret A. Burkhardt
PART TWO Diversity in Community-Based Nursing Roles
UNIT IV Diversity in Community Health Settings and Roles	257	(114)
The Nurse's Role in Ambulatory Health Settings	259	(38)
Karen Saucier Lundy
Vicki Sutton
Barbara Foster
The Home Visit	297	(14)
Karen Saucier Lundy
Home Health and Hospice Nursing	311	(28)
Karen B. Utterback
Karen Saucier Lundy
Debra K. Lance
Mary E. Stainton
Disasters in the Community	339	(32)
Karen Saucier Lundy
Janie B. Butts
PART THREE Community--Based Nursing Care
UNIT V Care of Families in Community-Based Nursing	371	(42)
Foundations of Family Care	373	(22)
Ruth A. O'Brien
Caring for the Family in Health and Illness	395	(18)
Linda Beth Tiedje
UNIT VI Care of the Individual in Community-Based Nursing	413	(148)
Men's Health	415	(18)
A. Serder Atav
Sharyn Janes
Joseph E. Farmer
Women's Health	433	(22)
Norma G. Cuellar
Karen Saucier Lundy
Venus Callahan
Adolescent Pregnancy	455	(24)
Loretta Sweet Jemmott
Michelle Cousins Mott
Susan Oliver Dodds
Children's Health	479	(22)
Harriet J. Kitzman
H. Lorrie Yoos
Anne C. Klijanowicz
Elder Health	501	(44)
Virginia Lee Cora
Community Mental Health	545	(16)
Sarah Steen Lauterbach
Appendix	561	(1)
Index	562