Community Health Nursing Alliance for Health

Written in an accessible, user-friendly, and practical style, this text provides a focused and highly engaging introduction to community health nursing. It focuses on health care for people in their homes and where they live with an overriding emphasis on care of the client in the community, and the business and politics of community health nursing. *Incorporates information on public health nurses, community health nurses and the visiting nurse*Includes guiding principles for nursing in the community, interdisciplinary communication, community-based needs of clients, systems of care management, resource allocation in the community, and project management*Covers important community health topics, such as homelessness and vulnerable populations, and interstate, international, and global health concerns*Includes Instructor Resources, such as PowerPoint Presentations and a Test Bank*Accompanied by a robust Companion Website full of online activities to enhance the student learning experience

SectionI Guiding Principles and Theoretical Orientation for Community Health Nursing
Chapter1 Providing Care to Clients in the Community
Chapter2 An Ethical and Cultural Context for Care in the Community
Chapter3 The Vision for the Alliance for Health Model
Chapter4 Relating Health Policy and Evidence-Based Research in the Community
Chapter5 Clear Communication and Information Management in the Community
SectionII Assessment and Diagnosis of the Voice of the Client, by People Who Provide Care to Them.
Chapter6 Narratives of Courage: The Voice of Clients in Community Health Nursing
Chapter7 Expertise of the Compassionate Nurse in Community-Based Care
SectionIII Assessment and Diagnosis of Community-Based Needs
Chapter8 Validity and Reliability in Epidemiology and Environmental Health
Chapter9 Inquiry and Health Promotion, Health Maintenance, and Health Restoration in the Community
SectionIV Assessment and Diagnosis Related to the Systems of Care Management and Resource Allocation
Chapter10 Flexibility and Systems of Care Management for Providing Care in the Community
Chapter11 Justice and Resource Allocation for the Family and Community
SectionV Community Program Development
Chapter12 Precision and Principles of Community Program Development
Chapter13 Using Project Management for Successful and Viable Community Program Change
Chapter14 Staying Alert as the Key to Emergency and Disaster Management
SectionVI The Future of Community Health
Chapter15 Responsibility and Interstate, International and Global Community Health Concerns
Chapter16 Creating an Evidence-based Future in Community Health Nursing