Community Health Care Nursing

by Sines, David; Saunders, Mary; Forbes-Burford, Janice

• ISBN13: 9781444316247
• ISBN10: 1444316249
• Edition: 4th
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-10-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Review of previous edition:
"An extremely popular and valuable resource to students, practitioners and managers in community health care nursing." Journal of Advanced Nursing

Community Health Care Nursing has become established as an essential source of reference for all those working in the primary care and community health care domain. The Fourth Edition of this successful text focuses on new emergent agendas which affect primary care and public health education and service delivery/improvement.

Comprehensive and accessible, this well established text draws on a wide range of subject experts all aiming for excellence in service delivery, to produce a resource that addresses the key aspects of community health delivery reflecting the reality of the new community/primary care agenda in the United Kingdom. Integrated throughout the book are themes relevant to contemporary community healthcare nursing, including Self Managed Care/Managed Care Pathways, Long Term Conditions, Palliative care and End of Life Care, Urgent and Unscheduled Care, Offender Care, and Continuing/Intermediate Care.  The result is a book which focuses on new opportunities for contemporary practice, service delivery/improvement and education response within the context of the modernised primary and public healthcare service

Key features:

•  New edition of a well-established and successful text
• Written by experts in the field
• Examines competencies in practice
• Includes evidence-based guidelines and integrates national service framework requirements
• Includes new chapters on Advanced Nursing Practice and competence assessment, modernised primary healthcare workforce and workforce change, Commissioning, and user and public engagement

Author Biography

David Sines is Professor of Community Health Care Nursing and Executive Dean in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at London South Bank University

Mary Saunders is Head of Department of Primary and Social Care at London South Bank University

Janice Forbes-Burford is Director of the Primary Care Changing Workforce Centre at London South Bank University 

Table of Contents

1. The context of Community Health Care Nursing.

2. Social Policy in Public Health & Primary Care.

3. The Origins of Contemporary Primary Healthcare.

4. Community Development in Public Health & Primary Care.

5. Health Needs Assessment, Risk Assessment and Public Health.

6. Research Perspectives Applied to Primary Health care.

7. Specialist Community Public Health Nursing- Health Visiting.

8. General Practice Nursing.

9. Contemporary Issues in District Nursing.

10. Community Children’s Nursing.

11. School Nursing.

12. Occupational Health Nursing.

13. Community Mental Health Nursing.

14. Community Learning Disability Nursing.

15. Advanced Nursing Practice in the Community.

16. Inter-Professional Practice and Teamwork.

17. Measuring the Effectiveness of Community Healthcare Nursing.

18. Non Medical Prescribing.

19. Specialist Community Public Health Nursing.

20. Primary Care Service Provision and Commissioning.

21. Inter Professional Practice Teaching and Learning.

22. User and Public Involvement